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KEY TO THE SECRET 



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Breeding for Sex 



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HORSEJACK AND BULL, 



How to Have a Male or Female Offspring, 
as trie Breeder May Desire. 



Discovered after thirty-eight years ex- 
perience and observation 



BY 



R. M. SLAUGHTER. 



COMPILED AND EDITED BY 

J. B. LAMKIN, Paris, Texas. 



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in the year 1898, by 

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INDEX. PAGE . 

Introduction ------ 6 

The Moon's Power on the Earth - - 8 

Theories of Sex Viewed - 11-12 

Mental Impressions on Offspring - - - 14 

A Working Hypothesis Must be Formulated 15-17 

Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, et al. - - 18-29 

Key to Secret of Breeding for Sex - - 30 
Knowledge of the Law of Sex Known to Ancients 32 

Solomon's View of the Law - - - 33~35 

Solar and Lunar Time - 35 

Waxing and Waning Moon - 36 

First Observations of Mr. Slaughter - - 37 

Observations of the Moon's Power - - 37-40 

Observations on Hermaphrodites - - 41 

Diagram and Explanation - - - 42-46 

Resume of Ovum Maturity - 46 

Number of Hermaphrodites - - 49 

Twins, Triplets, etc. - 50-5 1 

Cause of High CEstrum or Heat - - - 52-53 

Firstborn to be a Male - 53~55 

Upon What our Secret Depends - - 56 

Sacrifice, Blood-letting ----- 58 

Jacob's Experience in Stockbreeding - - 60-65 
How to Breed for a Sure Foal y , > % ^ -,*, §6-67 

Experience and Certificate of Mr. Coffniaii.--. - 67-68 

Affidavits to Method of our Breeding - 68-69 

Recapitulation ------ y Q 

Breeding with Cattle - - - - 70-71 



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PREFACE. 

Qf(N preparing this little volume for publication, I 
Cf have tried to keep constantly before me the fact 
that the matter it contains must take its place in the 
ranks of the highest scientific production, and by its 
simple practicability hold its place there, or live the 
ephemeral life of many very splendid speculative 
theories. The principal thoughts therein contained, 
though clothed in language of my own, did not origi- 
nate with me, but came to me through a chain of cir- 
cumstances favoring much the nature of a providental 
maneuvre. In February of the present year, Mr. 
Slaughter, the original discoverer, or rather the re- 
discoverer, of the secret of breeding for sex, realizing 
his inability to prepare his work for publication, 
sought for some one to whom he could safely impart 
his secret, and associate with himself in its publication 
and management. Knowing personally Mr. R. B. 
Barber, resident with himself, of the Indian Territory, 
and a stock breeder, he opened to him in bonded con- 
fidence, his experiments and observations of the entire 
thirty-eight years which he had devoted to the subject, 
and gave Mr. Barber all the liberty that could be re- 
posed in a confidential trust. Mr. Barber soon realized 
that his trust was of more than ordinary magnitude, 
and in order to treat it according to its demands would 
require some one more familiar with the laws of physi- 
cal life than himself, and hence he felt the necessityof 
the assistance of a third man. Meeting Mr. Barb er 
while pursuing my ministerial work, and giving him 
apparent satisfaction in answer to his questions on 



4 PREFACE. 

various subjects, he concluded he had met his man, 
and, with the same prudential guard, with which 
himself was bound he delivered to me his bonded 
trust. As a consequence it became necessary for me 
to meet Mr. Slaughter, who, at the instance of Mr. 
Barber opened to me fully his secret laboratory. How 
well these men have judged of my ability to handle 
a subject of such imposing and peculiar bearing, can 
be known only in the sequel. Twelve years previous 
to this, Mr. Slaughter, confidentially delivered to Mr. 
Geo. Coffman, a noted stock breeder of Collin county 
Texas, his secret from whom I gained much valuable 
information, the result of his continued tests for the 
entire twelve years in both his horse and jack breed- 
ing, mention of which is made elsewhere. Thus 
equipped I began the work before me, having as a 
farmer the greater part of my life, had some experi- 
ence in stock breeding, and taken many observations 
from the law of reproduction, and the science of gov- 
ernment reigning in both animal and vegetable king- 
doms. I appreciate the value of the certificates of ac- 
tual tests made by individual farmers, following the 
instructions of both Mr. Slaughter and Coffman, 
which certificates will be given their proper place in 
the body of this little volume, and which will from 
the beginning shield my work against the expected 
wreckage of an unsupported theory. I shall not offer 
in evidence the most plausible theory, indulged 
even, as a physiological fortress, without giving suffi- 
cient warning, to place the reader well on his guard. 
I shall endeavor from the beginning to the ending of 
this little work, to keep from it, any appearance of a 
literary or scientific romance, in the flowery field of 
ancient or modern thought, and deal with facts and 
common sense only. I am sure that my entire work 
will undergo a crucial analysis, and it will be right 
that it shall, announcing as it will, as a proven surety, 



PREFACE. 5 

that which has long been set aside as the "improba- 
ble." I cannot hope to offer a finished work in so 
new a field, suggesting an appendix to the arduous 
labors of the ancient philosopher and modern scientist. 
But I do hope that, with this key which will pass 
from our hands, some more skillful and penetrating 
mind will take and apply it to the removal of the mist 
that yet hangs darkly over the entrance to life's 
closed and secret chambers. Man's dominion over 
the earth will not be complete until he has fully dis- 
covered the secrects of its power and government. 
The horse is his natural servant, ward, and compan- 
ion, heading the list of the lower levels. The secret 
of sexing once known, and the horse fills his place in 
nature and becomes absolutely subordinate to the will 
of his master. This little book will place him there, 
not to make him physically more servile, but to make 
his service the more valuable, because of his more 
perfect subjection. 

To these men, Messrs Barber and Slaughter, who 
so unselfishly gave to me the entire managment of 
this work, editorially and otherwise, I write most 
cheerfully my grateful regards. And when I set them 
forward to the world and associate with them Mr. 
Coffman who will share in his place the honor of select 
preference, I will be content to retire to my former ob- 
scurity, and leave the trio to enjoy alone their well 
merited glory. I promise however to follow this vol- 
ume with another devoted entirely to the law of sex, 
applied to the human family, and its power there. 
This I mention in mv introductory but is well in place 
here. These two little volumes containing as they 
will unmeasured worth to the world, I unreservedly 
dedicate to the three names herein written, and hold 
only the honor of subscribing, their editor and mana- 
ger. J. B. IyAMKIN. 

Paris, Texas. 



INTRODUCTORY. 

For many long years there has existed a serious 
but very difficult question among the earnest seekers 
for scientific knowledge which has led them to ask: 
Is there a law governing the animal kingdom, or any 
part of it, by which the sexes are determined? And 
is this law known or to be known to man? Without 
question we admit that everything is produced and 
controlled by law, or by chance; and since such high 
order appears in all perfect physical motion, we are 
forced to decide against any "chance" theory, and 
proceed to answer the above questions with emphasis. 
There is a law by which sex is determined in the pro- 
cess of animal reproduction, and it can be known to 
man. Animal reproduction, or, "the bearing after 
its kind," is and ever has been of sufficient import- 
ance to hold the same in perfect continuance. It can 
never be considered irrational to hold that, it is radi- 
cally wrong to hold a mere "theory," against known 
and stubborn facts. We know that like causes pro- 
duce like effects. It is a fact that if we plant corn 
we will gather corn. It is a fact that corn will not 
produce potatoes. It is a fact that some law governs 
to prevent such occurrences. It is a fact that corn 
always produces corn. It is also a fact that there is a 
law by which this must be, and cannot be otherwise. 
It is a fact that each vegetable genus, is within itself, 
clothed with the power of continuance, when "sur- 
roundings" are favorable. It is also a fact that the 
"surroundings" are of law, as much as the power of 
racial propagation. Temperature must be at proper 
degree, treatment of proper order, and soil of proper 



INTRODUCTORY. 7 

nourishment, «11 of which is by fixed laws. It is a fact 
that species are derived from generic mixtures and 
law places to their extension a positive limit. This 
being true of the vegetable kingdom, can anything 
less be said of the animal? But in view of the fact 
that in the animal we find superior importance in 
some way, would it not of necessity occur that the 
law governing the latter kingdom exerts a correspond- 
ingly superior power? It is a fact that law cannot ex- 
ist without order, nor can order be maintained with- 
out law. It is a fact that the male and the female of 
both the kingdoms named, must copulate at certain 
and fixed times and conditions to produce an offspring. 
It is a fact that in the offspring we have both the male 
and the female, and that, in exact accordance with 
the law as observed, or unobserved. It is a fact 
that the more perfect the law of reproduction is ob- 
served, the more perfect the offspring resulting. Com- 
ing now to the animal kingdom, it is a fact that from 
each genus we discover variations in symmetrical 
form, differences in weight, texture, color, mind, 
power, temperaments, motion, etc., in which is dis- 
played the great law of universal diversity, which 
positively forbids any two objects, "though within the 
very closest generic embrace," from being an exact 
counterpart of each other. In this we seethe supreme 
reign of a perfect law. Without attempting to follow 
this line of thought to the first and great cause of all 
law, it is sufficient for us, if by positive results we can 
reach the second or third or still lower causes, if, at 
the same time we can discover by actual experiment, 
that we have arrived at a safe phase, or character of 
the truth. That a continual and multiplied media of 
causation exists, and of necessity must be so, cannot 
be successfully denied. That the inclination, or po- 
sition of certain planets or stars, relatively to each 
other exert a corresponding influence including the 



8 INTRODUCTORY. 

earth as is readily admitted, has given rise to all the 
astrological phenomena that has ever been offered to 
the world. That moons, or satellites, exert an influ- 
ence upon the planet to which they belong, is not dis- 
puted in high scientific circles. "That the earth's sat- 
ellite or moon, positively produces great oceanic swell 
or tidal wave is true and the only known limit to this 
influence is the breaking of the wave on the eastern 
continental shores. Just what effect the moon's pow- 
er after losing its grasp upon the great deep, has 
upon the land, has not as yet been accurately ascer- 
tained. But, that the moon influences both the ani- 
mal and vegetable kingdoms on the earth's surface 
cannot be successfully denied. The "signs" of the 
Zodiac have long been recognized as in some way af- 
fecting the Mammal family and all such as have a 
determined, or defined nerve plexus. All this being 
true, and perfect order being preserved, positively for- 
bids chaotic or chance events. In the entire classifi- 
cation Of facts the one of sex certainly stands among 
the highest. Racial extension depends entirely up- 
on it. This no one can deny. And if law governs 
perfectly the lower order of physical life, why should 
it be abandoned when it comes to that upon which all 
else depends? Such thoughts are absolutely absurd. 
The higher the object sought, the higher the law by 
which it is reached. If when Gallileo discovered the 
motion of the earth; Harvey, the circulation of the 
blood; Newton the force of gravitation; Morse the 
utility of the electric circuit; or Cooper the power of 
steam, if some scientist had discovered the secrect of 
sex, we would now be left to conjecture, as to which 
discovery would be entitled to the highest honors. 
But the secret has been discovered, not by an accom- 
plished scientist, but by an earnest, industrious, in- 
vestigating plebeian, who has given almost his entire 
life to experiments, and studious observations, to solve 



INTRODUCTORY. Q. 

if possible, the sex problem. He now comes in this 
little volume to place his discovery before the world, 
but under such guards as are richly due such dis- 
closure. The announcement of this discovery is not 
hastily or incautiously made. Feeling as he has for 
years, that the medical profession, together with the 
breeders of stock, and especially the breeders of fine, 
blooded, and imported stock, were all anxious to know 
the secret of sex breeding, or have a male or female 
offspring, just as the breeder des'red, would be gladly 
hailed, but with the severest test and criticism. Fear- 
ing lest his fortress might be stormed, the discoverer 
placed his secret in the hands of a well kuown and 
well indorsed breeder of imported and fine blooded 
horses and jacks of Texas, whose certificate and loca- 
tion will appear further on, together with a few of his 
staid patrons, who have been satisfied for years that 
some one had the secret of sex breeding, and who 
made many fruitless efforts to obtain it. The author 
of this article is well aware that this age of popular 
sentiment does, and of perfect right should demand 
facts before speculative theory, and especially will it 
be true in this matter of sex breeding. This volume 
will be devoted to stock breeding alone. And that 
part of sexual science relating to the human family, 
or breeding for sex there, will come forward in a sep- 
arate volume; and the law governing the one, will 
there distinguish itself from the law governing the 
other. Hygenic rules w T ith dietetics can be made to 
serve a high purpose in determining foectal health and 
character, but nothing whatever, with determining 
sex; which we trust we shall discover as we proceed 
to detail our sexual secret. To notice and attempt 
to answer the many theories advanced from time to 
time, by studious investigators, who have appeared 
upon the world's stage of science, and pay them the 
respect to which they are really entitled, would mean 



IO INTRODUCTORY. 

to prolong this introductory until it became of itself 
exhaustive and tedious, to be followed by a volume or 
volumes, unsuited to the restless, moving age in 
which we now live. We shall endeavor in this little 
work to be as brief as our subject will permit, and, as 
the public now demands, clothe our thoughts with as 
few words as possible, and thereby keep always direct- 
ly to our subject. We shall bring forward some very 
important Bible evidence. Clearly showing that an- 
ciently the secret of breeding for sex was known and 
practiced in the family household as well as in the 
field, by which will be proven, that modern science, 
when it has unveiled this secret to the world, by its 
tedious, diligent, wonderful search and triumph, has 
only recovered a long lost art — that of applying a sim- 
ple, natural law. If in this little book, or the secrets 
it contains, we can succeed in re-opening some long 
closed and obscure chamber in these temples of ours, 
and give back to the world that which is its own, we 
feel that we will have served a place and purpose 
worthy of much higher and grander beings than we 
are. We are well aware of the many theories appear- 
ing at different periods, and each receiving all, and 
many, much more credit than was due it, upon the 
great subject of breeding for sex. Some of the most 
popular I quote from a work entitled "Horse Breed- 
ing," by J. H. Sanders, page 64, under head of "Con- 
trolling the Sex. ' ' It has been said there is nothing 
new under the sun, and that each succeeding genera- 
tion spends most of its time in shoveling over the same 
earth that has been examined in vain by its predeces- 
sors in search of hidden treasures. * * * That of con- 
trolling the sex of offspring has, ever since the days 
of Aristotle been one of the most fruitful topics of dis- 
cussion, and the various theories that have been ad- 
vanced, appear and reappear with perennial vigor. 
These theories may be summarized as follows: 



INTRODUCTORY. 1 1 

i st. A strong mental impression on the part of 
the parents, but espicially of the mother, at the time 
of conception, will determine the offspring. 

2nd. The concentration of the attention of the 
dam, on her peculiar qualities, at the time of sexual 
union, will secure female progeny. 

3rd. If the amorous desires of the male are 
stronger than those of the female, the progeny will be 
a female, and, vice- versa. 

4th. The development of the faetus in the right 
side (horn) of the womb will secure a male and in 
the left side a female. 

5th. The point of origin of the artery of the tes- 
ticle from the main abdominal trunk (aorta) will de- 
termine the sex of the majority of the offspring, the 
male sex predominating in proportion as the origin is 
more anterior. 

6th. The male germ is supplied by the right 
testicle or ovary, and the female by the left. 

7th. The excitation of one side or the other of 
the system of the male at the time of coition, will de- 
termine the sex of the young. 

8th. The persistent selection for breeding pur- 
poses of females which yield one sex mainly, and of 
males from females of the same kind will finally se- 
cure a race producing a great excess of the sex in 
question. 

9th. In uniparous animals every successive 
ovum that reaches maturation is of the opposite sex 
from that which immediately preceded it. Hence by 
serving on the second occurrence of heat we may se- 
cure the same sex as in the last fsetus. 

10th. The stage of development attained by the 
ovum at the period of impregnation, determines the 
sex of the product of fecundation, the less developed 
proving females, and the more mature, the males. 



12 INTRODUCTORY. 

nth. The personal preponderance in strength 
and vigor of the one parent will determine an excess 
of its own sex in the progeny. 

1 2th. The nature of the food of the parents and 
particularly of the mother before conception, will in- 
fluence the production of the different sexes. 

The theory that just now appears to be more gen- 
erally believed in than any other is the 9th in the 
foregoing list. This based on the belief that, natural- 
ly, animals which usually bring forth but one at a 
birth will produce the sexes alternately, that, if the 
first ovum produces a male the next ovum if impreg- 
nated, will produce a female, consequently if a cow or 
mare after having produced a female is impregnated 
at the first period of heat thereafter, the product will 
be a male. If females alone are desired, one period 
of heat should elapse after the birth of a female before 
the darn is again served by the male. This is what 
has been known as the Stuyvesant theory, and many 
cattle breeders of my acquaintance, firmly believe 
that it can be relied upon in a majority of cases. 
Other theories have been advanced, but the foregoing 
includes the principal ones. It may be that several 
of these causes have some influence in determining 
the sex, but it is quite certain that some of them, no- 
tably, the 4th, 5th and 7th can have no influence 
whatever, and that none of them can be depended 
upon. * * * " 

I introduce the foregoing theories and comments 
because of the careful thought Mr. Sanders has given 
to the subject of .stock breeding generally, and giv- 
ing the highest authority in bringing forward experi- 
ments in each particular phase of it. In view of the 
many very earnest inquiries into the mysteries of sex- 
ual science, and the successive failures of the investi- 
gators to answer correctly, the same author ou page 
66 of his work, exposes himself to a withering criti- 



INTRODUCTORY. 1 3 

ticism by nature herself, by saying: "Nature has 
wisely provided, in order to preserve an equilibrium 
in the sexes, that their determination should be placed 
beyond the control of any single cause." Despair of 
ever knowing the law by which the sex was determ- 
ined, or possibly to be controlled, may have prompted 
Mr. Sanders to give expression to such thoughts. 
Nothing less will apologize for the fallacy, since he 
has not denied that all else as far as was then known 
was governed by fixed and positive law. But appear- 
ing to recover from his disagreeable exposure, he says 
on page 67, same work: "It may be that we shall ul- 
timately discover the circumstances under which 
these various causes operate upon each other, so that 
we shall be able, in many cases, to produce a given 
sex at will, but at present we know but little if any 
more upon the subject than was known to our grand- 
fathers. * * * " I bring these quotations forward in 
my introduction because of the subject matter they 
contain, bearing directly upon the law to be treated 
of in the body of this little work, and to which I will 
again refer. As a sequence to the tedious labor of the 
scientest to penetrate the secret domain of the un- 
known, has the attention of the thinking world been 
directed to the sublime intellectual altitudes, rather 
than the sterner depths of pure plebeian thought, for 
the unveiling of nature's deeper recesses. I grant the 
logical righteousness of this,, but at the same moment 
protest, that, within this mundane sphere, we can 
know anything more than nature as she reveals her- 
self by fixed and immutable laws. With this view I 
have no hesitancy in offering freely and fearlessly the 
secret of breeding for "sex", as it comes from a crude 
monument to nature's own genius. As the wonder- 
ful presence, pressure and power of gravitation be- 
came known by the falling of an apple, the utility, 
power and motion of electricity by the subtile fluid 



14 INTRODUCTORY. 

gliding down a kite string, the great strength of steam 
by the lifting of the lid of a common tea-kittle, so has 
come to light the wonderful secret of breeding for sex, 
by the sight, and a desire to know the cause of an her- 
maphrodite. As in each case mentioned above, the 
apparently limited suggestion, expanded with amaz- 
ing power and speed, until now it is rapidly filling the 
labratories of the world; we come now to offer another 
and more astonishing suggestion by disclosing the 
secret of breeding for sex, knowing as we do, how 
long and diligently it has been sought. It cannot and 
will not be denied, that under certain and peculiar 
conditions and ifluences form, color and character are 
affected and transmitted to progeny in both the ani- 
mal and vegetable kingdoms, but just why and how 
this is true cannot be known until some searcher has 
disclosed the true nature of each individual's proto- 
plastic elememt. That sight and sound does effect 
the animal nerve, at any time, is an essential fact not 
to be questioned. That the ovule, the spermatozoa, 
the faetus, through gestation, and on to complete de- 
livery and even later, is in continual contact with, 
and becomes in a high sense the product of the mate- 
rial nerve, cannot be disputed. That a working hy- 
pothesis by which the relation between parent and 
offspring may be clearly understood, has ever been, 
and will perhaps remain, the closing act in the alche- 
mists' dream, the very anguish of defeated specula- 
tive philosophy. We know that any substantial 
progress in science is, and must remain impossible in 
the absence of a working hypothesis, having a uni- 
versal application to the phenomena pertaining to the 
subject matter. And it can be truly said that until 
such an hypothesis is discovered and formulated, no 
subject of investigation can be said to be within the 
range of the exact sciences. Kepler and Newton gave 
the world an hypothesis from which has been formu- 



INTRODUCTORY. . 1 5 

lated a system, the exact working of which places as- 
tronomical measurements and calculations, together 
with the power and source of gravitation, within the 
domain of the accepted sciences. The Newtonian hy- 
pothesis did for astronemy just what the atomic theory 
did lor chemistry. By the former the most intricate 
calculations are made, inspiring the scientist with 
perfect confidence, by the correctness of its results. 
The chemist knows that by combing oxygen, one part, 
and hydrogen two parts, that he has water. He also 
knows that to combine one atom, or part oxygen and 
one carbon, under heat, he has a deadly poison, car- 
bonic oxide. But to add one atom, or part more ox- 
ygen, he has a harmless gas, carbonic anhydride, 
(dioxide) and so on throughout chemical combina- 
tions. The atomic theory can never be demonstrated 
by the geometric arrangement of the atoms them- 
selves, and the chemist holds it as true only by re- 
sults. Newton nor any of his disciples could demon- 
strate his hypothesis save by the correctness of cal- 
culations based upon it. Yet the scientific world is 
satisfied with both hypotheses and classifies them as 
exact science. In the great field of psychological in- 
vestigation, a satisfactory working hypothesis has 
never yet been formulated. In a word, no theory has 
been advanced which embraces all psychological phe- 
nomena. Messrs. Bernheim, Braid, Sir William Ham- 
ilton, Dodd, Carpenter, Wigan, Dr. Brown Sequard, 
Proctor, Flint and many more learned and brilliant 
minds have invaded the domain of psychic phenome- 
na, and in their struggle for a perfect, working hy- 
pothesis have given^ hypnotism to the world as a pos- 
sible hypothesis leading through the field of psychic 
science. No working hypothesis has yet been formu- 
lated by which the physiologist can determine to a 
certitude the source, power, and life of atomic plasma; 
nor so long as it is absent can science claim to hold 



I 6 INTRODUCTORY. 

the secret to the law of animal life. Indeed if an hy- 
pothesis can be demonstrated, it is no longer a hy- 
pothesis, it is a fact. If we knew the distance to the 
sun or planets, or their exact dimension, any geomet- 
ric theorem would pass into an actual fact. And 
the same can be said of any character of theorem. 
A theorem may suggest a hypothesis, and vice-versa, 
but no hypothesis or theorem are of any material force 
when brought to face a demonstrated or actual fact. 
In the treatment of a subject, however it may have 
been presented, we can safely discard any theory 
when the facts have been obtained. The fate of an 
hypothesis can always be said to depend upon the 
character of its own logical deductions; in fact it must 
live or die by them. If the physiologist could formu- 
late an hypothesis by which all the facts of sperm and 
germ-cell life resulting from self or cross fertilization, 
their perpetuity on the one hand, and their absolute 
failure, or loss, on the other, could be fully explained, 
or place us in full view of their genesis, then we 
might well hope to obtain from such hypothesis the 
perfect law of reproduction, which, as a logical se- 
quence, would to a certitude determine the law of dis- 
tinct sex, and by what exact process each are separate- 
ly obtainedo But in the absence of such hypothesis 
at present, the veterinarian and breeder will gladly 
accept of a class of facts however small, and from 
whatever source they may come if they will supply a 
want, waiting so long for some philosophical develop- 
ment. The fact of the many and conflicting theories 
regarding the production of the two distinct sexes 
from the same stock, is conclusive evidence, that thus 
far, among the most careful and learned stock breed- 
ers, no working hypothesis has been formulated, by 
which the sex of the offspring can be determined be- 
fore the germ-cell has even been fertilized. That the 
germ and the sperm-cells must unite in order to pro- 



INTRODUCTORY. 1 7 

duce an offspring, cannot be denied. But, that the 
conditions of both or either of the cells, "per-se" de- 
termines their own character, and the character in 
turn determines the sex, as is thought to be discover- 
ed in both plants and animals, is an uncertainty, up- 
on which the most sanguine scientist may wreck his 
fondest hopes. It would be useless to extend these 
thoughts farther at present, but for the fact that theo- 
ries have appeared proposing to solve the problem of 
sex breeding based upon an hypothetical parity with 
the astronomer, the chemist, and psychologist, when 
neither nor all combined can become an hypothetical 
parallel. Astronomical calculations are made minute- 
ly correct, without disclosing the deep secret of dis- 
tance, power, and motion. The chemist obtains per- 
fect results by an hypothesis based upon the unknown 
power of atomic adhesion. The psychologist brings 
forward astonishing results from the silent confines of 
the ''occult." But the physiologist finds his labrato- 
ry filled with material organisms, bearing each mate- 
rial affinities, or material dissimilarities. The perfect 
animal or plant, perfectly sexed, is of itself an absolute 
theorem, the first and chief term in which proposition, 
is a complete organized life. The second is like unto 
it, produced by a perfect law — the first and the last 
power in causation. The writer being absolutely ig- 
norant of any case of self-fertilization of the germ-cell 
by a sperm-cell of the same individual, he reasons 
that unlike the process of flower fertilization, the 
higher animal organisms become fertilized by speci- 
ally fitted portions of each other. The hermaphro- 
dite animal as contrasted with the uniparous or per- 
fect unit, cannot be said to project itself so far into the 
latter as to produce, contrary to nature's law, a sexu- 
al duality. Continued in and in breeding, so clearly 
shown by Darwin, Huxley and Spencer, may without 
exception among plants or animals, result finally in 



1 8 INTRODUCTORY. 

the loss of sexual vitality, and yet never prove that 
the sexual subsidence is due to anything but the vio- 
lation of a fixed law. 

From what has been said, and in view of the 
high standard from which the subject of physical de- 
velopment and sex has been treated by the scientists 
above named, we are the more inclined to think that 
among the astrological phenomena to which at pres- 
ent so little attention is being paid, will come a sol- 
vent for many of the problems appearing in popular 
sexual science. I cheerfully endorse Mr. Darwin in 
his own expression, as well as his acceptance of a 
thought from Mr. Huxley, after duly considering the 
crossing and re-crossing of flowers and the nature of 
the hermaphrodite animal, that, intercourse with a 
distinct animal is nature's legal necessity. It is well 
known among bee-keepers that a queen once fertilized 
by mating with a drone or male bee, is fertilized for 
life, and the hundred-thousandth egg deposited by 
that queen is as fertile as was the first one after mat- 
ing. But no hypothesis has yet been formulated by 
which this process, with many facts of fertilization in 
plant and animal life can be fully explained. To say 
that science will not finally unveil the deep secrets of 
organic life, would provoke pity, rather than con- 
tempt for its author. But that it has not yet done so, 
cannot now be denied. Reviewing the last preceding- 
pages we see nothing forbidding the fact that the law 
of time, being the only law that cannot be violated di- 
rectly, has ever and must continue to govern the sex 
in all organic life. And that the hermaphrodite oc- 
curring in the higher animal life, is as legal as that 
of a perfect sex. 1 cheerfully admit that the subject 
of stock breeding in general, or by specific features 
has been treated by far more profound and experienc- 
ed minds than our own, yet from the unsatisfactory, 
and undetermined effects of inbreeding, and the yet 



INTRODUCTORY. 1 9 

undecided causes and true character of any or all 
known injuries, I will ask, if continued inbreeding 
depresses or dwarfs the progeny, where as has been 
discovered uniformity of form or color has been ob- 
tained, why would or could not continued crossbreed- 
ing be made to produce any desired size, weight, form 
or color by giving especial attention to the qualities 
of the animal or animals with which you cross, if 
there was no positive legal limit to your operations? 

By a close study of the law of psyshic phenome- 
na, together with phrenology, after passing through 
anatomy and physiology we come in close contact with 
the horse and study him as we would study a man. 
We soon discover that the horse has as well defind 
temperaments as a man, and these operating by their 
peculiar presence and combination, determine the 
habits, character and strength of the animal. Mr. 
Sanders in his book on stock breeding, under the 
head of "General Principles of Stock Breeding," has 
brought forward many very excellent thoughts, em- 
bellishing his own with many splendid thoughts of 
eminent authors, upon the same subject. The influ- 
ence of Species, climate, changed conditions, habits 
and treatment, he presents in a very interesting man- 
ner, as each presents its peculiar effect upon the 
horse, none of which we can afford to pass unnoticed. 
Mr. Sanders leads us to understand that some one or 
more of these influences are brought to bear in form- 
ing the general character of the horse; and also by 
taking advantage of them, the breeder can and does 
mould the character much to his own liking. These 
thoughts suggests some facts, and some very interest- 
ing possibilities. If we could at any time obtain to a 
certainty a pure speciman of pure breed in the horse 
species, in the genus Equus, we could then begin to 
study the real character of the horse. But subjected 
as he has been to such a variety of climates, conditions 



20 INTRODUCTORY. 

and treatments, that it is hard for us to know how 
near we are to a pure, natural horse. But one thing is 
very noticable throughout all these changes, improve- 
ments and deteriorations, that the horse maintains an 
equilibrium by some secret law, and he still remains 
a horse. No one animal perhaps has been studied 
and improved as has been the horse, which has been 
due, no doubt, to the fact that a horse is a natural serv- 
ant and companion of man. Strange however, the 
horse having been so long a subject and ornament of 
nature's labratory, that so little of his real makeup is 
clearly known. Mr. Sanders cites many instances 
and methods of breeding for some peculiar bloodstrain, 
among which and perhaps the most important is that 
of inbreeding as a means of obtaining and preserving 
a desired quality. Now just a moment. The breed- 
er for quality, selects such animals only as indicate it. 
The animal must appear to be susceptible of receiving 
the improvement desired. It must also indicate its 
power to transmit to its progeny its own qualities. 
Now what are those qualities, and how are they 
formed? I have said that the horse had temperament 
much the same as man, which are for our present pur- 
pose, the mental the vital, and the motive. In form- 
ing the character of the horse these temperaments take 
on many modifications — viz: the billious, sanguine 
and lymphatic, which take on a sub, or second modi- 
fication, which is, the motive, mental, the billious; 
motive mental, the lymphatic mental, the lymphatic 
motive mental, the nervous mental, and the nervous 
lymphatic mental. A third modification is only that 
of the second. In this modification the mental pre- 
dominates, and hence is said to be a modification of 
the mental. The same is true of the vital and motive 
these being the chief or grand temperaments of man 
and the genus Equus. The function of these temper- 
aments are, for the mental, intellect, mind, sensibility, 



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etc. The vital, vigor, motion, symmetery of body, 
clearness of mind and physical motion or activity. 
That of the motive, to give bone, its color, size, tex- 
ture and character of muscle, blood, nerve and general 
physical strength. Combine these three in either 
man or horse and you have a perfect specimen. Their 
modifications always determine how far we are from 
our perfect specimen. The perfect draft horse take a 
modification making the motive chief. The Clydes- 
dale, the English cart horse, and the Percheron, 
European importations, may furnish us as near a 
specimen of draft horses as at present is possible to 
obtain. The large strong bone, short heavy pastern, 
hard horny hoof in the pure bloods, coarse hairy can- 
nons, coarse heavy mane and tail, the black, brown 
or bay color, are positive marks of the motive temper- 
ament. The slow or sluggish movement, the moderate 
ease of flesh, the weak or low swing of the upper eye- 
lid, the small lungs, as compared with the weight 
of the animal, show the presence of a billious lympha- 
tic modification, and the absence of the vital, a low 
mental, a sluggish and slow heart-beat, low excitabil- 
ity, are conditions suited only for draft purposes. If 
a draft horse is desired, the breeder will, in making 
his selections for breeding, attempt at least to combine 
as many known qualities necessary to his purpose as 
possible, and once united it becomes necessary to 
cautiously see that none are lost by crossing with 
inferior breeds. Temperaments determine the char- 
acter of the individual, but not ks species. Temper- 
aments arise from the presence and combined powers 
of the vital organs, or forces of the body. Temper- 
aments then become indices to the correspondence of 
the vital organs. In-breeding for a draft horse means 
to save a combination against loss by diverse breeds, 
i. e., against the vital motive first appearing to us in 
the pure Percheron, giving more speed. Reaching 



2 2 INTRODUCTORY. 

the Cleveland Bay, a horse of rare value for all harness 
purposes, we get a motive vital temperament with a 
nervous flux in the vital, modified by the motive, 
which gives the animal speed, power and endurance, 
not to be wasted on adverse or lower breeds. Close 
and careful, if not much, in-breeding is necessary to 
preserve this combination, since it is true that by 
what is known as heredities, effects a change in the 
size, texture and power of the vital organs, and hence 
a corresponding change in the temperaments. A 
degenerated, or valueless, species means a degener- 
ated process of breeding A perfect species, means 
an unbroken or uninterrupted process of breeding 
which fixes by hereditary molecular action in building 
cellular tissue from which organic fixture arises, a 
fixture in the temperaments, thereby giving a combi- 
nation which of itself becomes organic and will remain 
until interrupted by the infusion of a diverse combina- 
tion from some segregated species. For a moment, 
and for our purpose at this point, let us discard this 
and form a new index. Could we closely examine 
the physiology of the animal from which we now 
desire a cross, we would glance at the blood, get its 
color, the relative number of corpuscles, the red to the 
white, its motion, volume and freedom from fetid 
matter, which will lead us to the kidneys, liver, 
heart, lungs and brain, the condition of all which we 
will find as indicated by the blood. From the brain 
we pass directly into the nerve plexus, following 
along their walls, we visit every portion and organ of 
the body, having gone through the genital machinery 
and watched the blood as it yielded to the magnetic 
touch of the two sexes, in nerve contact, rapidly 
gathering plasmic life and forming a little, wriggling 
spermal animal, and transmitting it to the opposite 
electrode, a willing and ready receiver, an infinitesi- 
mal chamber with an open door into which our little 



INTRODUCTORY. 23 

wriggler glides across the waves of a spermal sea, 
carrying with it and forming in its new home the 
temperaments as they are to appear in the life of the 
future animal. The strong and stylish cart horse, 
the nimble boulevard driver, the fleet trotting and 
race horse, each, if carefully bred, have a well 
defined nerve plexus, involving the vital organs in a 
process of manufacturing temperaments suited to their 
own peculiar use. When a desired breed is once 
obtained, its continuance depends upon how well it is 
guarded against adverse mixture and how long the 
one breed can be repeated until you reach perfect 
equilibrium. I mean equilibrium in the radial cen- 
tres. If a temperamental quality is to be preserved — 
say a nervous, vital, mental — giving us the fleetest 
animal, and in-breeding is resorted to, to perpetuate it 
and father is bred to daughter, daughter to son, son 
to sister, sister to father, and so on, you will eventu- 
ally reach an equilibrium which in someway becomes 
an absolute bar to further progress, and barrenness 
and sterility is the inevitable result. You will now 
ask what about this ? The formation of the magnetic 
chrystal, or the positive and negative cones, are 
absolutely necessary to all life, both animal and 
vegetable. No plant or animal can live without 
these chrystals in some form or number. No chrystal 
can form where there is no magnetic or electric cir- 
cuit. No circuit can be established where there is no 
attraction. There can be no attraction where the two 
poles are either positively or negatively electrified. 
In this case our poles are now repellants. This being 
true', the germ cell repels the sperm cell, and vice 
versa. It now occurs to us that there is no union of 
the two cells thus at magnetic equilibrium, and hence 
no offspring. Each of the cells thus repelled would 
become prolific when brought in contact with oppos- 
itely electrified cells. The earth gives the negative 



24 INTRODUCTORY. 

chrystal, and its surroundings the positive. The 
earth's satellite is a known magnetic excitant. The 
inclination of the earth upon its orbit determining its 
magnetic equator, and other planets in opposing 
positions all operate as magnetic excitants — relative 
positions, relative excitant — from which is obtained 
magnetic motion. The moon, with its low temper- 
ature, becomes to the earth a high positive pole, and 
being near it, eqerts a continued energy upon it, and 
yielding, as it only can, a reflection of the sun's power 
it must of necessity become the most potential agent 
in forming the chrystal upon which all life depends. 
From this view we discover why in-breeding, and in 
fact out-breeding, where magnetic equilibrium is at- 
tained, as is proven by many striking instances, 
results in apparent barrenness or sterility, as well as 
to arise from some physical deformity. And possibly 
many physical deformities for which no other satis- 
factory account can be given, may arise from either 
physical or mental equilibrium. We will later on 
learn how to breed for and preserve any quality de- 
sired and attained, when we have learned more of the 
law that governs us. Another very interesting phe- 
nomenon is given by Mr. Sanders under the head of 
" Influence of First Impregnation." The subject is 
worthy of more than passing notice in view of the 
many facts presented in an article by Prof. James 
Law, of Cornell University, a very learned veterinar- 
ian. In this article Prof. Law presents the fact that 
not only the "mare," but other domestic animals — 
the cow, ewe, sow and bitch — are, quite a per cent, of 
each species, contaminated by the character of the 
" male" in first impregnation. The question, why 
some young mares when impregnated first by a jack 
then subsequently by a horse, will in the subsequent 
foal exhibit some features of the jack? And soon 
with the other animals. Prof. Law here quotes an 



INTRODUCTORY. 25 

argument by McGillivray, who advances the theory 
that some element or elements from the blood of the 
fcetus by absorption contaminates the blood of the 
mother who is never after of pure blood, and hence 
incapable of producing a pure-bred offspring. Prof. 
Law's criticism pronounces this theory the merest 
assumption. He next quotes Mr. Darwin, who varies 
slightly from McGiliivray's theory and discovers the 
blood rilled with infinitesimal living, plastic or plasmic 
germs to be gathered up and used when needed to 
build up some character or condition in the animal 
economy. These plasmic germs, Mr. Darwin argues, 
pass through the membranes, the placenta and uteral 
wall from the blood of the foetus to the blood of the 
mother, and circulate and multiply, there by a rapid 
process affecting at the same time the ovaries of the 
female so that the ovules and offspring, when impreg- 
nated by other males and produced by her, are plainly 
hybridized by the first male. Without offering to 
illumine superior lights, I am inclined to favor Prof. 
Law, and at the same time hold himself for the 
absence of a single sunbeam touching the solution of 
the problem. If Darwin's theory of absorption of 
foetal blood causing ' ' sports ' ' or variations in char- 
acter of offspring should at any time obtain, it would 
as quickly disappear under the fact of a transfusion of 
blood from the veins of an animal into the veins of a 
woman without in the least affecting her after progeny. 
Why Prof, Darwin confines the function of the gemule 
to the building of the foetus, or embryo, or to hybri- 
dize the ovule in process of development in the ovaries 
and, against much logical argument to the contrary, 
as is shown by Law and others, losing sight of a 
more plausible theory, that of plasmic carriers, is a 
little difficult to understand. It, by the walls of the 
uterus, through the placenta, the foetus receives its 
nourishment from the mother, and that nourishment 



26 INTRODUCTORY. 

is utilized in building a new animal, and the function, 
or one function at least of the placenta, is both 
stomach and lungs, and also that of all the vital 
organs of the foetus, and perhaps the lowest secretory, 
the argument would be plausible that an exchange of 
gasses, oxygen for carbon and vice versa, was contin- 
ually going on between the mother and the foetal 
process, and this being true, it would be possible for 
spermal gemule from the sire to be caught up in the 
gaseous process and lodged permanently in the blood 
of the mother, where with the native gemule it lives 
and propagates and when called upon projects some 
part of the parent imagery, and hence the " sport " 
or variation following in the subsequent impregna- 
tions. If this admission of Prof. L,aw is correct, then 
possibly, both Darwin and McGillivray are correct in 
their absorption theory. I will here ask Prof. Law. 
Can there arise carbonic acid in the foetus until some 
tissue breaks down, or falls into disuse, or is rejected 
in the building process ? Is not the entire foetal struc- 
ture, from coition to parturition, a continual system 
of joining molecules and not of tearing down and 
carrying out? Is not this the " umbilical " function, 
until the last wall is completed, or even the plexus is 
tested for its magnetic polarity, or the mental helix of 
the mother is placed in contact with that of the foetus 
or the nerve centre ? And is this not the last work of 
the mother, since nervovital fluid in complete circuit 
must vitalize or stimulate to action the entire secre- 
tory system, necessitating oxygen by respiration, 
which could take place only in open air, where, with- 
out injury to the mother, carbonic acid can be 
exhaled, given off b}^ the new machinery in its first 
work ? Is not mecomium, or first effete matter, in the 
embryotic intestine put there for the sole purpose of 
establishing the digestive machinery in the mucous 
membrane and prevent at the same time adhesion of 



INTRODUCTORY. 27 

their walls until the cylindrical canal is complete ? 
Now, the mother being the sole builder, could not by 
any hygienic process to either herself or young, afford 
a redundance of material for the building, which 
alone would necessitate the absorption process. From 
this view appears some physical fallacy in the recipro- 
cal theory, and still leave the mentioned effect of first 
impregnation to be accounted for in some other way. 
The writer is ignorant of any case of maternal 
" marking " where the mother's objective senses had 
not previously been affected. Leaving this thought 
for a moment we listen to Prof. Law as he exposes the 
Darwin theory of gemule transit from the embryo to 
the mother's ovarium, there affecting all future ova, 
and of necessity crossing all future progeny. But 
Prof. Law, in attempting to shield his criticism, leaves 
us in the fog by accepting the, to him, more plausible 
theory of a mutual effect upon adjacent cells in the 
womb and foetal membranes and, confined there, 
would not affect the blood of the dam, in future breed- 
ing. If the foetal gemule is not securely lodged in 
the literal wall and there unchanged await subsequent 
impregnation, nor passed into the circulation to await 
there the next foetal action, then it would occur that 
the claimed effects are all false, or the effect is from 
quite a different source. If in our search for the true 
source of physical foetal marks, we discover that they 
originate either by heredity or maternal mental im- 
pression, the only question left for us is how to 
account for and prevent the occurrence of so much at 
least as is due to maternal mind. The case men- 
tioned by Mr. Sanders of the black buck in his 
father's flock of white sheep, is certainly a clear case 
of impressed vision, which is but one instance of the 
great number known to exist. The presence of the 
black buck, so sudden and strange, produced mental 
fright, with the white ewes possibly in various stages 



28 INTRODUCTORY. 

of gestation, which fright so impressed their "senses" 
as to convey color to the offspring. Now what 
"sense" was thus affected ? A brief notice and my 
introductory will end. It has long been known that 
many field and forest animals, and fowls as well, and 
especially those well domesticated, are, in a very 
high degree, subjective. This subjective sense re- 
sides within the motor nerve plexus. It receives 
and retains impressions from the external or objective 
sense. By stimulants, narcotics, fevers, frights and 
passions, the motor cell is made to reproduce the 
exact impression given through and by the objective 
or external sense. These subjective projections mat- 
erialize in exact accordance with the excitement under 
which they appear. The strength or character of the 
impressions is in exact accordance with the external 
force that makes them. The sexual passion coming 
from the motor nerve cantre returns with any im- 
pression it may have received from the objective or 
external management. The sexual passion being a 
determined excitant, and with the female seeking 
and obtaining gratification in the male, if the male 
have no peculiar mark in color or form by which 
some special impression is made upon the now deeply 
negative subjective female, the subjective cell now 
closes with no other impression than the fact of the 
sexual gratification, and hence the law of production, 
acting without extraneous pressure, produces an off- 
spring in regular order. But should the female 
copulate with a male of peculiar form or color, and 
this the first contact and hence first impression, hence 
new nerve cell, she would in this case receive and 
retain the deepest impression. Subsequent impreg- 
nations are by reason of the same excited passion and 
as a rational sequence, the second being to the female 
a repetition or reproduction of the first, awakens the 
first impression from its subjective slumber, with any 



INTRODUCTORY. 2Q. 

peculiar form or color, or even motion, of which it 
was composed. And the objective sense or mind 
being now perfectly passive in the female, her sub- 
jection now operates in full force and in the local 
centre at the moment of coition, now hybridizes the 
sperm cell, which in its hybridized condition deter- 
mines the form, color, motion and mental character of 
the foetus in exact proportion to the power of the sub- 
jective reproduction. I feel safe in saying that not a 
single instance of a " sport'' or variation in the foetus 
has ever occurred when, from whatever cause it may 
have arisen, with an objective female. I may be 
called upon to explain more in detail, which I per- 
haps will do in the work on sex breeding in the 
human species. But in more than a thousand cases 
in horses, cattle, sheep and swine, and among the 
various breeds, the writer has failed to observe a 
single clear case where a foetal variation had occurred 
with a highly objectivized female. I have but briefly 
alluded to these questions of apparent abnormalities 
in order to produce a few parallels to the various 
theories of sex breeding, as they have appeared and 
reappeared from time to time and been exhaustively 
treated by profound scientists, without as yet ap- 
proaching the real secret. 



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SECRET KEY TO STOCK BREEDING 
FOR SEX. 

We live in a day when the power of materializing 
facts is rapidly dispelling the vapors of speculative 
theory. Science and the Christian's Bible are lock- 
ing hands to invade the mysterious domain of nature 
and nature's God. With this holy union, man will 
discover the splendor of his own being, and that of 
the power that produced him. It is said that knowl- 
edge is power. It can as truly be said that conscious- 
ness of power produces knowledge. Men disbelieve 
the Bible because of its claimed to be "formulae" of 
the world's source and progress. To science, much 
Bible teaching has been and is yet but a complex 
hypothesis. 

In this little volume we come to deal with some 
facts. Facts concerning the physical life of created 
beings. Our Bible teaches us that God said, in his 
genesis of creation; "Let there be light in the firma- 
ment of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; 
and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days 
and years." — Gen. 1-14. 

"And God said let the earth bring forth the liv- 
ing creature after his kind, cattle and creeping things 
and beasts of the earth after his kind, and it was so." 
— Gen. 1-24. 

"And God blessed them and God said unto them 
be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and 
subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the 
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every liv- 
ing thing that moveth upon the earth." — Gen. 1-28. 



KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX 3 1 

It could be well said that when Moses wrote these 
scriptures he lived in a day and with a people who 
knew that the sun and moon in some way determined 
and controlled the day and night, and also the stars, 
for they were lights in the so named firmament. As 
to who and how the knowledge, that the lights de- 
termined the seasons as well as the day and night, 
appeared, may not be clear to us, and just what 
Moses meant when he said so, may not be fully 
known until we have learned all the secrets of animal 
life. Whatever else Moses knew of astronomy more 
than the length of the day and night, and moon's 
phases by observation, he, without doubt knew some- 
thing of the astrological secrets as practiced by the 
Egyptian astrologer and magician. Moses under- 
stood well the meaning of God's command when he 
said replenish and subdue the earth. We can hardly 
see how man could place the earth under his control 
until he had well studied the means for doing so. 
And especially would it be difficult until he had 
learned the secret law of his own life, by which alone 
could he subdue himself to himself. And until this 
was done, not only with himself as a part of the earth, 
but with the next higher order of animals, which were 
to serve him for a higher purpose, could he be abso- 
lute monarch. We admit the correctness of the scrip- 
ture statement of God's injunction to all living to 
bring forth after its kind, which if left undisturbed it 
would continue to do without man's legal assistance, 
while then as now, the passions governed. But the 
higher injunction to man to subdue all the earth 
would evidently mean that the work would not be ac- 
complished until man so controlled animal nature that 
he could make it bring forth to his own suiting. 

Science at the instance of its diligent and com- 
petent disciples, is apparently approaching the secret 
of hybridizing with both plant and animal, and will 



32 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

no doubt discover the law of blending there as is now 
so clearly shown with the mineral kingdom, in the 
laboratories of the chemist. We do not claim that 
the Bible affords a special formula to us by'which we 
can at a glance obtain the secret of breeding for sex, 
but that we can gather some clear inference, that sex 
breeding was understood and practiced by the an- 
cients, we think will clearly appear. Astronomy of 
the nineteenth century was not the astronomy of four, 
five or six thousand years ago. The "science" of to- 
day is the fruit of a system of fine arts in the "long 
ago." Whatever of the artistic was then practiced^, 
and has since been confirmed by scientific analysis, 
can now be said to have been empirical. But as must 
be conceded by the most devoted disciple of modern 
science, empiricism has often paved the way, or main- 
tained in its crude practice, some very high status of 
scientific development. Without following this 
thought further at present, I will resume my approach 
to the real purpose of my work. By reference to 
Ecclesiastes 3:1 we get an expression ascribed to Sol- 
omon; "To everything there is a season; and a time 
to every purpose. " Eccl. 3:2; "A time to be born, 
and a time to die." 8:6 he says: "Because to every 
purpose there is a time. ' ' From the scriptures I have 
quoted, Mr. Slaughter inferred very naturally, that, 
coming as they did from the wisest of men they could 
not be made to speak their full meaning, and not 
comprehend a full knowledge of the "time" to bring 
forth a male or female offspring. The fact that old 
scripture genelogies teach us that from the beginning 
of the age of man, the first born of every family, and 
in almost every instance two, three or four, at least, 
of the subsequent births were male children, forces 
us to acknowledge that these old families were favored 
through successive generations with a very singular 
class of accidents, or they knew of a time that sexual 



KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 33 

intercourse would produce the sex desired. When 
we discover from the long used form of national gov- 
ernment, being the lineal or family form, the head of 
the family, the father, ruling, and this the only form, 
and upon the man so much depended, we are inclined 
to the belief that even in that remote age the law 
governing sex was well understood. And in addition 
to this, when we are forced to admit, that in all na- 
ture, there is not a known physical production or mo- 
tion resulting from mere chance, or just a happen so, 
but on the contrary, we see everywhere a reign of 
law, we are still the more inclined to this belief. 
And can we not very safely say, that when Solomon 
said there was a time to be born, he meant he knew 
there was a time, when a male or female could be 
produced according to the wish or purpose of the pro- 
ducer? And can we not insist, that he knew full well 
the time to copulate, since by Israel's genealogical 
tables, and his own knowledge of man's superior 
worth, and the importance of Israel especially, keep- 
ing his genealogy pure, that he not only knew of a 
time, a proper time to copulate for sex, but by what 
unerring influence the sun, moon and stars exerted 
over man and animals? And we are led still further 
in the belief that Solomon not only knew the law gov- 
erning sex in the human family but also among the 
beasts of the field when he speaks with so much em- 
phasis as touching the termination of organic life in- 
dicated in Eccl. 3:18-19-20-21. * * *" And that 
they might see that they themselves are beasts. For 
that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts, 
even one thing befalleth them: As one dieth; so 
dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that 
a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast for all is 
vanity. All go to one place, all are of the dust, and 
all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of 
man that (it) goeth upward, and the spirit of the 



34 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

beast that (it) goeth downward to the earth. "Sol- 
omon knew full well that the organic properties of 
physical man and physical beasts were quite similar 
in their nature and combination, and the simple fact 
of form, and intellect, gave to the one no advantage 
over the other. If we now begin where Solomon dis- 
misses his vexed and dual simile, and pass back, 
which we can well do, and say with him that all are 
alike in death, all are alike in life, all are alike in 
organic elements; hence all must be alike in their 
birth, in the primary planting for a birth, all alike in 
the time to plant, similar in the passion that prompts 
the planting, and all io some way alike in diversify- 
ing sex and of necessity there is a law by which all 
the physical properties of this dual simile are held in 
place, power and motion. In extending our thought 
until it embraces more fully Solomon's meaning when 
he teaches us that he knew there was a time to all 
things and the same supreme rule applied to the vege- 
table kingdom that so perfectly governed the animal. 
We hear him in Keel. 1-2: "A time to plant and a 
time to pluck up that which is planted. ' ' Anticipat- 
ing some one's answer, that Solomon only meant that 
which any sane person will concede, that, with the 
animal, birth and death could not take place at one 
and the same time, joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, 
grief and happiness, anger and docility, hatred and 
love, were incompatible powers and influences. And 
to the vegetable, the season, springtime, time to plant, 
summer to grow, and autumn to gather, or as the lati- 
tude would indicate, so act, was all he meant. Can 
we at all acknowledge the superior wisdom of Solo- 
mon and at the same moment make him squander it 
in such pure plebian expressions? Wisdom may utter 
her voice in simplicity, but her every effort is to place 
the pupil upon a higher plane. But wisdom defeated, 
musingly utters her own lamentation by the power of 



KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 35 

so great a contrast, as to her alone can appear, and in 
such words: "As it happeneth to a fool, so it hap- 
peneth even to me, and why was I then more wise? 
Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity. ' '-Keel. 
1- 1 5. Viewed from a certain plane Solomon in com- 
mon with any philosopher, decided it was foolish to 
be wise, but neither can or could at any time say it 
was wise to be foolish. So we must conclude that 
the time to plant seed in the earth to which Solomon 
refers, was to the future plant, as the time to copulate 
was to the future animal. Resting our thoughts at 
this point for the present let us introduce the "moon," 
the earth's satellite. As will appear in our proofs, 
the lunar month is divided exactly into two equal 
parts, commonly known as light and dark or new and 
full moon. Counting the exact length of a solar year 
we have 365d, 5I1, 48m, 48s. If in perihellion and 
perigee the earth's and moon's inclinations were ex- 
actly the same to the plane of their orbits, giving an 
exact day length through the complete orbitular cir- 
cuit, and the moon's path had no orbitular variation, 
the exact length of a lunar month would be 28d, 2h, 
17m, 36s, and the solar month 3od, ioh 15m, 32s. 
One half the lunar month so counted would be ex- 
actly i4d, ih, 8m, 48s, which would be the time given 
each to the old and new moon, or in rural lore, the 
dark and light moon. Let us at this point say with 
assured candor, which will appear in our proofs, that 
to the full moon belongs the male, and to the new, 
the female sex. The so-called waxing of the moon is 
from new to old, and the waning, from old to new. 
The decreasing, or waning moon, fitly represents the 
male. The vigorous power and greatness of the man, 
while in the full strength of his masculine glory, is 
but the monumental splendor of a fixed and unalter- 
able waning, so strikingly displayed to us in the full 
moon, whose silver face neither sparkling nor bril- 



36 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

liant, shows no life nor light that is not borrowed. 
And while in the zenith of his glory he looks with 
soft and charming gaze upon his enchanted, admir- 
ing minions, he silently waves them his sad adieu, 
and slowly turning his jeweled face, his steady wan- 
ing so surely passes him out of sight. The increas- 
ing or waxing moon just as fitly represents the female. 
Coming as she did, and yet does, from the uncon- 
scious slumbering of man's wasting fullness, she ap- 
pears the decorated delicacy of a superior and splen- 
did ruin. 

Her beauty now increasing-, 

Her attraction now unceasing; 

All nature bows and yields to her embrace. 

Held within the enchanting power of her face. 

With the facts that will herein appear we can 
very safely say to science; no longer scout the rustic 
claim, that the "moon" really has to do with both the 
animal and vegetable kingdom, and that its influence 
there is in some way an all important factor. A ques- 
tion might here be asked, why has the moon a path 
around the earth? Why do we have light and dark 
moon? What is meant in God's decree that the lesser 
light should rule the night, and that the stars also 
should take part in the great influential relation? It 
will be clearly seen that this very mention indicates 
that there are relative solar forces existing that no 
member of our planetary system could afford to loose. 
And that there was some kind of plauetary alliance, 
appears evident, from the ebbing and flowing of the 
tide. With these and kindred thoughts and inter- 
rogatories,. Mr. Slaughter began with these few dim 
lights before him, to explore the regions of the un- 
known, a search for the secret of sex. The fact that 
the sexes were about equally divided, and that perfect 
sexing was the rule, suggested to him that there was 
a law somewhere governing this grand equation. 

Laboring under many disadvantages Mr. Slaugh- 



KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 37 

ter began a close system of observations among the 
farm stock. Noting the date of the foal of the mare, 
he observed that the first heat after foaling expired 
on the twelfth day. Counting back nine days would 
bring on the first period of heat on the third day after 
foaling. This, where the mare was healthy and did 
well in foaling. When the mare was not bred in first 
heat, as a rule she would be in heat after the twenty- 
first day after foaling. This heat would last from 
seven to nine days, and go out about the twenty- 
eighth day after foaling. But if bred in either heat, 
he observed the time the heat expired in which im- 
pregnation took place, whether in the new or old 
moon. Following this to foaling, he began to dis- 
cover that if the mare was bred in the old moon, or 
that the heat expired in the old moon, the foal would 
be a male. On the other hand, if the impregnation 
heat expired in the new moon the foal would be a 
female. Here another question arose, which was all 
important. How many days belonged to each moon? 
And did they follow or precede the moon? To de- 
termine this, his observations had, necessarily, to be 
very close. He here observed that if a mare was bred 
the three last days next preceeding the full moon, and 
the impregnating heat ran six days into and including 
the day the moon fulled, the offspring would be a 
male. Also if the impregnating period terminated 
any day after the third day, after full moon, and one 
day before the change or new moon, the offspring 
would be a male. Mr. Slaughter further observed, 
that it would be safe to breed as far as the fifth day 
after the full moon, supposing this to be the first day 
of the heat, for it would then terminate one day before 
the new moon having had then, nine days to run. 
Observing and applying this rule the result was in- 
variably a male offspring. He then applied the same 
rule, and closely observed the result, to the new 



38 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

moon, and in every case the offspring was a female. 
These closely made observations settled in his mind 
that the full moon controlled the next succeeding 
fourteen days including the day oi fulling, and ter- 
minating one day preceeding the day of change, or 
new moon. He also observed the same, i e, that the 
new moon governed the next succeeding fourteen 
days after and including the new moon. Mr. Slaugh- 
ter's attention was called, early in this sex-breeding 
search, to the question of barrenness in the female and 
sterility in the male, deformed wombs and the herm- 
aphrodite. He knew ail these questions had been 
quietly resting with physicians and horseologists, un- 
der the almost unanimous decision that they were 
only freaks of nature. This did not satisfy him, and 
he asked himself, what is a freak of nature and why 
do they appear, and in so many ways? And could 
we not know if the freak was the merest chance, or 
the violation or distortion of some fixed law? Mr. 
Slaughter was keeping, and kept, his search pro- 
foundly secret for more than twenty years, choosing 
to make a slow progress, if progress he could make at 
all, rather than risk evoking criticism and ridicule, in 
case his search was fruitless, or have but a small share 
of the glory in case he succeeded. And being a man 
of retiring, plebian habits, this course to him was not 
difficult to pursue. But the questions above enumer- 
ated still remained to him vexed and difficult, and the 
more so, when in a casual way he would put them to 
some skilled physician or veterinarian, and be 
answered, only a freak of nature. And to the ques- 
tion of sex, it was just a kiud of happen-so. With all 
these evasive and unsatisfactory answers from grad- 
uates in anatomy and physiology, Mr. Slaughter was 
not dismayed. The conviction that surely there was 
some key to the mystery held a persistent influence 
over his mind. The hermaphrodite among the do- 



KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 39 

mestic animals was really the first cause of his search 
for the solution of the great sex problem. At the age 
of fifteen years Mr. Slaughter for the first time saw a 
hermaphrodite. It was of the human family and 
quite young enough that the circumstances of its birth 
were sufficiently vivid to furnish Mr. Slaughter, 
though but a boy, a basis from which to begin to 
reason. His first question, why this double sexed or 
non-sexed being? Why did its nature permit this? 
Was it law, or no law? Why were there not more of 
them, or none at all? And were they in any other 
physical way affected? Was the only visible deformity 
in the procreative organs? If so, why so? It had a 
strong sexual passion and no possible way to gratify 
it. If this was a mere freak of nature, was not nature 
in this inexcusably cruel? Were the parents in any 
way responsible? Delicate as were his questions, Mr. 
Slaughter learned that both were properly sexed and 
at time of copulation were not in any perceivable way 
unduly influenced. Mr. Slaughter, young as he was, 
was so impressed with this "freak" that he deter- 
mined to know the true cause, if it was possible to 
obtain it. He was then living with his parents in 
Giles Co. , Tenn. , and he applied to the most skilled 
physicians of his county to explain; but to to his sur- 
prise they said in answer to his questions, they did 
not know, it was a freak of nature. But did these 
physicians know all that could be known of this pe- 
culiar freak? The boy said, there is a correct answer 
and I will get it. He applied to other physicians and 
learned men, but as often received the same unsatis- 
factory answer. He used the little advantage he had 
with books, but to no success. Gathering up the old 
legendary practice of planting certain crops "in the 
moon," and seeing, as he thought, some decided ef- 
fect, he reasoned that if the moon had this influence 
upon the vegetable kingdom, why did it not in some 
way affect the animal? And if so, would not or could 



4-0 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

not, the question of sex be known, and settle his 
hermaphrodite problem? Two other hermaphrodites 
came under his notice, one in the horse, and one in 
the swine. By close inquiry he learned that the 
breeding of the mare that foaled the hermaphrodite 
colt was done right on or very near the dividing line 
between the two moons. But did this decide any- 
thing; if so, what was it? Hermaphrodites were too 
infrequent to furnish him the sole material for his 
study. Now if he could decide the question as to 
whether the moon in any way controlled the sex, from 
this hypothesis, he could determine the appearance of 
the hermaphrodite. And might it not also prove that 
the direction in which the scientific world had been 
looking for an understanding of this phenomenon, 
was not the right one? Firmly beleiving he was in 
the right path, Mr. Slaughter continued taking notes 
during the breeding season, noting the day the foal 
was dropped and counting as a rule the twelfth day 
after foaling as the end of the first heat. Should a 
mare be bred in this heat, and prove to be in foal, in 
which moon did the heat terminate? In these cases, 
and there were enough of them, where the mare was 
bred and impregnated in the first heat, to get satis- 
factory data, that the first heat terminating in either 
new or old moon, did without failure determine the 
sex, To repeat here what I have already shown, and 
which appears in our diagram, that in the cases just 
named, where the twelfth day of first, and impregnat- 
ing heat ended after full and before the new moon, 
the foal was a male, but, if terminating after the new 
and before the full moon, the foal would be a female. 
Following with these observations into second, third 
or more heats, in every case where the impregnating 
heat terminated in either moon as above stated, the 
result was the same. Feeling sure that he had thus 
empirically discovered the secret of breeding for sex, 



KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 4 1 

Mr. Slaughter turned his attention to the hermaphro- 
dite with some assurance that he could learn some- 
thing definite of its nature and cause. Reasoning from 
the facts appearing in his hypothesis, if the full moon 
conception determines the male, and the new moon 
the female, was there not a point somewhere between 
the old and new, or new and old, where there would 
be no sex, or be both? This seemed to him so plaus- 
ible that with renewed anxiety he sought more and 
additional data from which he could obtain some re- 
liable proof. Mr. Slaughter had, by close study and 
observation, learned enough of the hermaphrodite 
index, as written in the face and body motion by 
which he could determine who was a hermaphrodite, 
whether in male or female attire. While a young 
man he chanced to form an acquaintance with one in 
female attire, and taking its place as one of a circle of 
fashionable young ladies. He courted an intimate 
acquaintance with this "young lady" for the purpose, 
if possible, of making or having made a close exami- 
nation of her, or its person, that he might learn as 
nearly as possible the exact nature of the deformity. 
Learning as he did for sure that she, it, was a her- 
maphrodite, he pursued his purpose until by mutual 
consent, he had permission to make a thorough ex- 
amination. In this case a small vaginal cavity was 
found in or near the proper place for a female, and 
terminating abruptly at or near where the "neck" of 
the womb should be in a well sexed female. What 
was above this closure to represent the uterus, or the 
ovarium he did not minutely determine. But the fact 
that no menses appeared and no symptom of retention 
was perceptible, he inferred that the ovarium was as 
incomplete as the uteral cavity; which would argue 
that there were no defined ovaries, no fallopian tubes, 
no uterus, i. e., nothing defined, and hence no female 
sex. Searching for the male procreative duad, he 



42 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

found no testicles, no penis other than a small pro- 
tuberance, apparently nothing more than a protrud- 
ing clitoris, which was of no perceptible use as the 
urine was voided bv the vaginal cavity. Mr. Slaugh- 
ter further learned that the sexual passion was very 
strong, almost incontrolable, and quite continuous, 
and no visible means of gratification. At this point 
quite an important feature became very noticable. 
The face had no well defined masculine marks to a 
casual observer, and especially when treated to a cos- 
metic coating. The absence of the male procreative 
organs, the choice of female attire, and preference of 
young men for social companions, convinced Mr. 
Slaughter that this was a case where ovum matura- 
tion occurred with the mother exactly on the new 
moon, having descended from the ovarium in the old 
moon, which act will be taken up later on. At this 
time Mr. Slaughter was closely following his hypothe- 
sis, and of necessity was forced to rely, as will be 
clearly seen, upon the strength of a logical theory, 
which to him must stand until disproved by facts to 
the contrarjr. Before proceeding further we will try 
to exhibit by suitable plate or diagram, a lunar month 
showing the old and new moon with the days belong- 
ing to each, and the exact point at which conception 
takes place, to give a perfect male and a perfect fe- 
male, a slightly deformed womb causing barrenness, 
and a dormant genatile organism causing sterility. 

In following Mr. Slaughter's hypothesis through 
this plate or diagram, 1 would not for a moment at- 
tempt to lead an intelligent public to believe that he 
could, or would attempt to account for all procreative 
abnormalities by this hypothesis, knowing as he does 
that there are many malignant impediments to breed- 
ing, arising from diseases of the procreative organ- 
isms, among which I will name: Overfeeding either 
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stricture, or muscular closing the neck of the womb; 
deferred breeding long after maturity of the mare; 
expulsion of the semen from the womb by spasmodic 
contraction at the moment of coition by undue or over 
oestrum, or heat; fatty degeneration or blocking of the 
fallopian tubes, preventing the descent of the ovum 
for impregnation; over- work, or over-strain with 
either mare or stallion, an undue exudation of mucous 
from the uteral wall, induced by protracted obesity, 
or too rich food, etc. But that a class of non-produc- 
tions and deformities of the procreative processes do 
arise from our hypothetical exhibit, will be stoutly 
maintained while facts continue to appear. 

The dots in our plate represent days. The dotted 
line at Fig. i, Sec. i gives the entire fourteen days 
belonging to the new moon, but terminating at the 
outer disc of the full moon where the change is taking 
place and is too far complete to accommodate a union, 
in fact cannot retract. The sperm cell, impregnating 
by its union this non-sexed germ, or partially changed 
germ cell, produces from this ovule a barren female. 

Fig. 2, Sec 1 makes the fourteen days terminate 
within the disc of the full moon, the change being 
still more complete produces at this point an her- 
maphroditic female. I mean as much the more a fe- 
male than a male as the ovum lacks of reaching this 
lunar meridian at the exact time of maturity. 

Fig. 3, Sec. 1 passes the dots or da} r s to termi- 
nate directly on this lunar meridian, where the sub- 
sidance of the female is complete in the equilibrium 
here produced by the first, or incipient male influence, 
and the closing or maturing ovum receiving the 
sperm cell and is impregnated, produces a dual sex 
condition, which can now produce only an hermaph- 
rodite, or a unit of two non-sexed duads. 

Fig. 5, Sec. 1 begins the fourteen days one day 
after new moon, and terminates one day after the old, 
crossing the disc, and giving one day on the outer 



44 KKY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

rim at a point too near the meridian to have a com- 
plete male ovum, which if impregnated in this con- 
dition the product will be a sterile male. 

Fig. 6, Sec. i. This terminal point is now two 
days across the moon's disc, and should a mare be 
bred this second day, and that the last day of her 
oestrum, or heat, the sperm cell of the male is now in 
contact with a mature ovum, and if impregnated, the 
offspring will be, all else being equal, a well sexed 
male. 

Sec. 2 is a full moon petiod, a period for matur- 
ing male ovules. The f shows us the near approach 
to the new moon meridian of the fourteen days al- 
lotted to the full moon, and terminating near enough 
to this lunar meridian to unsex the ovule then ma- 
turing, having descended nine days before, and which 
if impregnated, will produce a sterile male. But if 
it should not come in contact with a sperm cell it 
would pass out and be lost. 

Fig. i, Sec. 2 terminates at a point sufficiently 
within the influence of the new meridian, or tristing 
point, to affect the sex of the ovum, now maturing 
to the close, but still approaching nearer the deter- 
mined sex line to affect the genitile organism and pro- 
duce a sexually deformed male. 

Fig. 2, Sec. 2 terminates exactly on the new 
meridian, at which point a change from the male to 
the female influence affects the descended and mature 
ovum, as in the case at full moon meridian, but from 
male to female, and if the now non-sexed or double 
sexed ovum should be impregnated the product would 
of necessity be a hermaphrodite. 

Fig. 3, Sec. 2 passes across the moon's disc and 
places us within the moon's shadow, and at a point 
where the ovum will mature more to the female, hav- 
ing now entered the gate to her enclosure, than to 
the male, and should this ovule be now impregnated, 



KKY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 45 

as is shown in Sec. 1, Fig. 2, the product would be a 
female hermaphrodite. From this it will now be seen 
that the male and female hermaphrodite can both be 
produced on the same moon and within a few hours 
of each other, by one maturing on one side of the 
lunar meridian and one on the other. We have now 
shown three distinct points on the moon where rests 
the possibility of producing a hermaphrodite. But we 
may here be met by some one with the question; will 
the number of hermaphrodites bear to the total num- 
ber of births, the same ratio that the time as shown in 
the diagram for making the change on the moon's 
disc, bears to the entire time elapsing between the 
two lunar meridians? I can at present only answer 
that, to formulate an hypothesis by which we can, or 
could minutely and accurately account for the entire 
class of maternal sexual deformities, i. e., those pres- 
ent at birth of the young animal, would be to claim a 
perfection in our formulae not expected to develop from 
one so young as ours. But so long as our reasoning 
maintains a logical parity, and is supported by exist- 
ing facts, there is no opposing hypothesis, less sup- 
ported, to which we would willingly yield. In the 
absense of a correct concensus of the hermaphrodite 
and hermaphrodite animals, we will assume, having 
no reliable data at hand, that the ratios when ac- 
curately obtained, would demand no better explana- 
tion than can be found in our diagram. In the ab- 
sense of any positive information regarding the ma- 
turity of the ovum, whether, as a fixed rule, it takes 
place in the ovarium proper, in the ovaduct, or in the 
uterus, we can very safely make this statement; that 
owing to the many known obstructions to ova descent, 
that a mature egg may be found in either locality 
named. 

Fig's 1 and 2, Sec. 3 is explained in figures 1 and 
3 in Sec. 1. 



46 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

Fig's. 3, 4 and 5, Sec. 3 are the nine oestrum, or 
heat days of the mare, which are embraced within the 
days of the new moon, and conception taking place 
on any of these days will insure a female offspring. 
If a foal is dropped one day before new moon, as a 
general rule, the mare having twelve days in which 
to have her first heat, she can be bred on the seventh 
or ninth days, provided she is impregnated, and in- 
sure a female offspring. 

Fig's. 1, 2 and 3, Sec. 4, are all within the days 
of the full moon; and within one, two and three days 
respectively of the close on the coming new. But a 
foal dropped twelve days preceding either close, will 
insure for the mare a male for the next foal, if she is 
bred and impregnated on either of these days, and it 
will be, all else being equal, well sexed. 

Fig's. 4 and 5, Sec. 4 show the crossing from one 
moon to another of the days of heat, arising three, 
four or five days preceding, in this case, the new 
moon, which if on any of these days the animal is 
bred and impregnated the offspring will be a female, 
and all else being equal, will be well sexed and pro- 
lific. I feel sure in closing this explanation of the 
diagram, that the breeder will now make no mistake 
in his work, and if he follows the instructions closely 
he can have a male or female just as he may desire. 
In passing on across our field of search and discovery 
we will frequently refer to our diagram and will en- 
deavor each time to give the breeder something of 
value to his business. 

RESUME OF OVUM MATURITY. 

Let us assume that the ovum is not projected from 
the ovary until mature, and at the moment of matur- 
ity is detached or expelled from the oval chamber, 
and begins its descent through the ovaduct to, and 
down the fallopian tube, stopping at the uteral wall 
to await further orders. Here let us ask; did the ex- 



KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 47 

pulsion or detachment of the mature ovum bring on 
oestrum or heat? If so, why as a rule does it come at 
regular periods? Can food, condition, habit or care 
produce such regular order, since in neither do we 
find a system so complete as is here suggested. Or 
does the beginning of the heat determine the expul- 
sion of the ovium, and its descent acting in conjunc- 
tion with the progress of the heat, it slowty but grand- 
ly glides along its bridal avenue, arranging its toilet, 
decorated by the "new" to become the bride, or 
jeweled by the old moon to become a bridegroom? If 
the maturity of the ovum determines the heat, and it 
descends for the sole purpose of propagating its race, 
and impregnation should on any account be delayed, 
then we argue that the defeated egg must return to 
its former state or continue the heat indefinitely. It 
now very clearly appears that the oestrum, periodical 
as it is, is determined by an influence not residing 
within the capricious elements of the immature egg. 
And further, if the egg is mature at time of expulsion, 
and its voyage is for the sole purpose of impregnation, 
and the heat is for the sole purpose of inclining the 
animal to the service of the egg, should impregnation 
take place the first day of oestrum, the now fertilized 
egg would take its place in the fallopian tube or return 
to its uteral chamber, and the heat then and there termi- 
nate. But this process is not so conducted. By every 
indication perceivable the whole procreative process, 
both work and machinery, are governed by time in a 
system of signals, which if not obstructed, proceeds 
in perfect keeping with the importance of its work, 
and divides and subdivides its time so that each gen- 
erative maneuvre, in continuous and quick succession, 
gemules laden with protoplasmic atoms build tissue 
and cell, and at a moments warniug signal their com- 
pletion. At this point let me ask, where does concep- 
tion take place, and at what time? Properly the place 
is in the fallopian process, but may vary by muscular 



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pressure or nerve condition, serving to prematurely- 
open or spasmodically close its fecundation cavity. 
It is contended by many veterinarians that concep- 
tion, or the complete union of the sperm and germ 
cell, takes place at the moment of coition, and the 
uniparous ovum, admitting one only, spermatozoon, 
closes its door, and at once begins its uteral attach- 
ment, and by muscular action the womb proceeds to 
expel the seminal surplus, when the work of fecunda- 
tion is completed. Others, that meeting as they do 
in the upper uteral chamber, the spermatazoa falls 
within the oval embrace and is retained there until 
the ova has made itself ready for the cellular union, 
which when done closes instantaneously. By the 
terms of our hypothesis, conception cannot take place 
until there is mature ovum, and notwithstanding 
copulation may take place at any time after oestrum 
begins, conception will be deferred until the ovule, as 
in the case of plant life, is mature. We hold with 
the facts obtained that as a legal act the ovule de- 
scends or is projected from the ovary, nine days prior 
to maturity. The projection depends upon the 
oestrum. The oestrum depends upon the moon. Two 
heats and one rest period or one heat and two rest 
periods to one lunar month. The detached ovule is 
furnished with nine days rations from the ovaries. 
This wandering ovule must capture a spermal prize 
or starve after the end of the nine days. The ovule 
is not mature when expelled. It is expelled for the 
purpose of maturing. When once mature its sex is 
determined, not by any intrinsic element or power, 
but by the law of time that matures it. Nor is it 
sexed by the sperm cell from the male, for it has no 
power over it save that of fertile life. As we have 
shown a high and inexorable law governs, the law of 
time- The spermatozoa, in the semen of the male at 
copulation carries sufficient spermal plasma to feed 



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the impregnated ova which is done at the exact time 
of maturity, until it is attached to the uteral wall, its 
embryotic home. From our lunar meridian we will 
now begin our minute division of time, and see if we 
can find support to our hermaphrodite exhibit. By 
the U S. census of 1890 it will be safe to say that we 
have one hermaphrodite to each 100,000 horses and 
mules, which estimate is too low unless we confine 
our count to that class of hermaphrodites that have 
an equal development of both sexes, or having two 
positive sexual duads. But coming as we must from 
this exact sex meridian, through the modifications, 
embracing both barren or sterile animals, arising 
purely from this lunar cause, and we can raise our 
estimate until we would find one in 1000. This being 
in any sense true, we can at once see that we are 
given sufficient time to cross the moon's disc, and al- 
low every ovule maturing there to be so affected. 
Our astronomers calculate the time of full and change 
up to the minute. Their reason for doing this arises 
from the fact of there being an exact point at which 
the moon's position to the earth and the earth's in- 
clination to the sun are each changed in degree, and 
the moon being so near the earth that the effect of the 
change of degree, minute and second, being known 
in count of time, would argue that it would also be 
felt magnetically. I feel that the thoughts here 
brought forward are sufficient to place the subject of 
the hermaphrodite among domestic animals suffici- 
ently clear before the reader. In our recapitulation 
at the close of this volume we will try to rearrange all 
these lights. But remember, to our credit, we regard 
ourselves only pioneer in a very wonderful work 
awaiting the profundity of the coming scientist. We 
are now to give some observations upon some other 
effects of the law of sex. The question is often asked, 
why among uniparous animals do we have twins, 



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triplets, etc.? This question would seem at once to 
come well within the fixed terms of our hypothesis. 
Whatever speculation may be indulged, we have 
some facts from which to predicate our deductions. 
If, as we have seen there can be no impregnation 
without mature ovum, a projection from the ovary, 
and descent to the fallopian duct. This being true, 
it is also true that a fallopian condition as already 
mentioned may obstruct the passage of a mature ova 
until it is overtaken by an immature one, and the two 
or more as the case may be, will descend together at 
the moment of coition, which in the case of a volup- 
tuous prolific female, is accomplished by relaxation of 
the nerves and muscles by the heated pleasure of sex- 
ual contact. Spermatazoa and spermal fluid now 
sufficient, impregnates the mature ova, and the im- 
mature ovum, embracing as is its function, spermata- 
zoon and spermal food holds it until it is mature, at 
which time without segmentation, they begin and 
complete their voyage to their uteral home where they 
are nourished and perfected by the same placental 
process. But will our hypothesis give us the reason 
why one is a "male and the other is a female, as in the 
case of twins? Easy enough. The first ovule that 
matured, did so, if the male, in the old moon and 
near the change. The second, descending later, ma- 
tured in the new and hence a female. But you will 
answer is it not true that many pairs of twins, and oc- 
casionally triplets, are all of one sex? Yes this is 
true, but being true, does it argue that it just hap- 
pened to be so, or an undefined freak of nature? 
As we are at a loss to find a "single" happen- 
so birth, the same would also be true in the plural. 
Without entering into the plasmic production of the 
ovule, or the exact function of the ovary, by any 
known theory, we are safe in saying at least, that two 
or more ovules may be projected or thrown into the 



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ovaduct at the time, and together with their separate 
cells, descend for impregnation, which by time of ma- 
turing and conception, in either old or new moon, 
both be either male or female as per diagram. I will 
say at this point, there being no logical argument to 
the contrary, that our hypothesis is well supported by 
facts, and what would be true in a single birth would 
be equally true in plural birth as to the law of deter- 
mining sex. In the majority of plural births one or 
the other is barren or sterile. Some one might at- 
tempt to answer this by spermatozoidal exhaustion. 
We are not prepared yet to receive this, for we cannot 
appreciate just how the male could project a prolific 
and healthy sperm cell, and well sex one germ cell, 
and fail to effect another, at the same time, knowing 
that impregnation is determined by spermatozoa from 
the semen, in which they are found in sufficient num- 
bers to impregnate more than one with a fertile or- 
ganism, a sexed condition, if sex depended upon the 
action of the ovarium, or the seminal ejection. Our 
hypothesis determines the sexing of the pluro-birth, 
as well as the sterility or barreness of either. 

We ma3^ just here indulge a theory of oval con- 
version, and not in any respect wound or weaken our 
hypothesis. Should it prove true that the ovaries, in 
their spontaneous production of ova, in and of them- 
selves produce or manufacture gemules from some 
gaseous material element, and of the gemules thus or- 
ganized and vitalized, produce ovules and each ovule 
modeled after the manufacturer would primarily have 
the female form, and escaping from a ruptured ovisac, 
now become subject to some influence, which of 
necessity resides without the maternal organism, if 
that influeace, power or fixed law should, of the same 
identical ovum change completely its sex once or 
twice in each month, transforming the female organ- 
ism with its corresponding members, to that of the 



52 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

male, and vice- versa, and not of necessity destroy the 
ovum in the process nor even permit it to become de- 
tached until it had undergone repeated changes, in 
fact, continued subject to such changes while it re- 
mained within the ovarium, what valid objection 
could be urged against it? What if it should be dis- 
covered that prior to maturity the ovule is absolutely 
non-sexed, and presents to the eye of the examiner a 
material susceptibility only to a regular sexing pro- 
cess by which the susceptible parts are, by our hy- 
pothesis, converted by our determined lunar law, into 
whatever sex produced by our lunar periods, what 
objection could be urged against that? This may, to 
the casual observer appear the merest speculation, 
and yet eventuate within the range of some term of 
our hypothesis. Whatever digression we may seem 
to make from our diagram or exhibit, we will not, 
cannot destroy, or even weaken the facts as already 
shown by it. In dismissing these speculative thoughts 
we come to examine another important feature in our 
work. It is known to any observing stock-breeder, 
that during the breeding life of a mare, there are some 
periods of heat more fervent than other periods, with- 
out any perceptible change in flesh, habits or other 
surroundings, and for which he has not been able to 
account. By close observation Mr. Slaughter dis- 
covered the fact that, all those periods of high heat in 
mares, jennets and cows occurred on the full moon, 
and also the lower or more moderate heats came on 
the new moon. He also discovered that a mare bred 
in high heat and impregnated and foaled a male off- 
spring, seemed much more docile, less irritable, and 
more agreeable among other animals, and easier every 
way to manage. These facts of high heat on full 
moon, a male offspring, docility of the mare in after 
life, led Mr. Slanghter to examine more closely old 
scripture genealogy. I should perhaps have made 



KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 53 

necessary exceptions to Mr. Slaughter's hypothetical 
ruling in the above citations, but I have made them 
all through this work, and I trust the rational reader 
will observe them here. 

The fact that there is not a genealogical house- 
hold mentioned in old scripture that had not a male 
child for its first-born, from Adam to the birth of 
Christ, and even much later, with the fact of the large 
majority of births among cattle, sheep and goats along 
the sacrificial ages, became of much interest to Mr. 
Slaughter, the close study and watching of which 
confirmed Mr. Slaughter in his new discovery and sat- 
isfied him that the secret of sex-breeding was a practi- 
cal art and was well known to the "ancient of days." 
Mr. Slaughter's attention was,' in addition to the 
scriptures already mentioned, called to the inaugura- 
tion of the sacrificial service in the Levitical priest- 
hood. Beginning with the first chapter of the book 
of Leviticus we discover that God is very specific in 
describing the character of the sacrifice, its relation to 
the magnitude of the offense or purpose for which it 
is made. It is clearly seen in this chapter of Leviti- 
cus, the third chapter and forty-first verse of the Book 
of Numbers, with the thirteenth chapter and twelfth 
verse of Exodus, that of cattle, sheep and goats, where 
the sacrifice was for any congregational purpose, God 
required it to be a firstling, a male, and without 
blemish. Nor anywhere throughout the law, or any 
allusion to it by any prophet, Christ or his apostles, 
is it intimated that the sacrifice could be otherwise 
and be acceptable to God. To Mr. Slaughter these 
sacrificial qualifications, added to the fact of a male 
child being the first-born of every family, argued by 
their very nature that the art of sex-breeding was 
known and practiced by those old time families. And 
not only did they of those ancient days understand 
when to breed for sex, but how that this first-born 



54 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

male should be without blemish which meant to them 
as also it means to us, a perfect birth. No one who 
will closely read these scriptures can for a moment 
deny that in some way a very superior art or custom 
governed both farm and household in their practice of 
reproduction. If but occasionally in house or field 
the first-born was a male, the fact of this might offer 
a very plausible apology for the joy and celebration of 
the event, when their ritualism depended so much 
upon it. But this was not true. As we have shown 
by scripture reference that a male first-born was ex- 
pected as confidently as was the birth, and their joy 
and celebration of the event continuing with these 
genealogical triumphs, and their repeated allusion to 
the Lord, in these victories, as being in some way the 
author of their continued precision, leads us more to 
think those people were not only familiar with the 
law of sex-breeding but their knowledge of it came to 
them in the same way in which they had obtained the 
entire law. Our attention is here directed to the case 
of Klisha and the Shumanite; 2nd Kings 4:15-16. 
The prophet here clearly expresses a knowledge, 
which in no way was connected with his calling as a 
holy seer. But as he felt a duty toward the wife for 
her care for him, and willing to perform it toward 
her, he ordered her into his presence and plainly ques- 
tioned her as to what she would have him do for her. 
The servant of the prophet gave him her wish and 
words as she had delivered them, which added to the 
prophet's knowledge of sex and what influenced it 
most. In this case, as we have given in general in- 
dications of sex control, the prophet knowing the 
woman was childless, and that a barren womb was no 
credit to any one and also that the time to conceive 
a male child was the time when the sexual passion 
was the highest, and her confidence in the man of 
God, acting as an inspiration, prompted her to say 



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she was childless; and her apparent doubt of the 
prophet's sincerity was but the expression of an anx- 
ious hope. When Elisha said; about this season, ac- 
cording to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son, 
and no expression of surprise or wonder at the proph- 
et's knowledge coming from neither the servant nor 
the woman is but positive proof that all of them knew 
that it would be as the prophet had said, and not be 
out of the way of a known ruling law. We get some 
further thought on this same subject from the expres- 
sion of the husband of this woman as found in the 
23V of this same chapter: "Wherefore wilt thou go to 
him to-day, it is neither new moon nor Sabbath." 
Now why did he say this? He knew not of the death 
of the son, and he, the son, being large enough to go 
to his father in the field, and to talk plain, we would 
infer that the husband supposed his wife desired an 
interview with the prophet regarding another child. 
We further infer that as the first-born was a male, 
that it would be no breach of family custom for the 
next child to be a female, and as it was by the in- 
spiring presence of the prophet that the first concep- 
tion took place, that it was as a sequence of the first, 
necessary for the wife and prophet to be in each 
other's presence for subsequent conceptions. We fur- 
ther infer that the husband and wife had mutually 
agreed that the second birth should be a girl, that 
they might have one of each sex, and the more since 
we clearly see that chances were all against them for 
a family of children, she, the wife, very late to bear 
at all and the husband growing old, is to us convinc- 
ing that they wanted a girl next. Now we hear him 
express surprise at his wife going on that business as 
it was neither new moon nor Sabbath. Some addi- 
tional thought arises from the Book of Numbers, 3c, 
50-54.V. "And the Lord said unto Moses; 'number 
all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel.' 



56 KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 

And thou shalt take the Invites for me instead of all 
the first-born among the children of Israel; and the 
cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among 
the cattle of the children of Israel." While as we have 
said, there is no scripture clearly defining the law 
governing sex-breeding as we have in this work de- 
lineated, we claim the benefit of an inference as clearly 
drawn as many other accepted scripture doctrines and 
* 'facts." We now feel safe in saying that with more 
than a hundred scriptures in both the old and new 
testament to clearly favor us, nothing appearing yet 
in philosophic reasoning nor any scientific analysis to 
the contrary, together with these more than thirty 
years practical experiment and observation, our hy- 
pothesis will stand an impregnable fortress against 
sceptical criticism of the coming ages. It has not 
been our fear that this little work would be a failure 
in any of its essential features, or that it would falter 
when subjected to a crucial test for any number of 
years that caused us to offer it the support of these 
scriptures or any attempted logical or scientific argu- 
ment. But believing that this singular production 
would be read by a large number of our best thinking 
people, we have been induced to offer some thought 
leading us back through the Bible to discover one of 
its most splendid customs, arts or laws, which has not 
come to us by either history or tradition. As will be 
seen before closing this little volume, we are not de- 
pendent upon any theory of science, formulated or ac- 
cepted philosophy, scripture, nor anything written or 
taught or even known prior to the experimental life 
of Mr. Slaughter for the stubborn facts as they appear 
recorded upon these pages, And while without hesi- 
tancy we can safely declare all this to be true, we are 
not so selfish even of the very high honor of making 
one of the world's grandest discoveries as to attempt 
to rob another age and another people of equal if not 



KEY TO BREEDING FOR SEX. 57 

superior honors. Nor do we believe as Mr. Sanders 
suggests in his work, to which frequent reference is 
made in our introductory, that nature has and is pur- 
posely concealing the law by which sex is determined 
to prevent intrusions upon her prerogatives, and the 
destruction of sexual science itself, but to the con- 
trary we believe and earnestly maintain that so great 
a trust as the great Creator reposed in the power, life 
and wisdom of men, as the subjugation and manag- 
ment of all the earth's productions would or could be 
done only by committing to him the right to know 
and appty the law by which he could govern it. Nor 
can any one justly charge us with a rude invasion of 
forbidden ground nor of unlocking or attempting to 
force an entrance to any secret chamber purposely 
closed against us by the great Creator. We well 
know that quite a per cent, even of the reading pub- 
lic seem to think, and speak with some assurance, 
that God never intended for us to pass beyond some 
imaginary limit, to know only as it is written by some 
predecessor, in fact they place an embargo virtually 
upon the laws of their own life, by which they an- 
nounce unconsciously more the depths of a profound 
ignorance than the free and prudent altitudes of in- 
tellectual motion. I have alluded to Exodus 13:12-15 
as in some way offering strong support to our hy- 
pothesis. And this scripture so admirably does so, 
and comes so clearly within the range of preceding 
thoughts that it will be well in place to quote ver- 
batim: "That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all 
that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that Com- 
eth of a beast which thou hast, the males shall be the 
Lord's * * therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that 
openeth the matrix being males, but all the first-born 
of my children I redeem " We have alluded to 
scriptures only relating to male firstlings of the flock, 
and now in further defense of our hypothesis we offer 



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some scripture relating to the female offering. The 
reader will here remember I have said that in all sac- 
rifices with blood-letting, the important or weighty 
ones were always made with a male, young, and with- 
out blemish. It will clearly appear from the reading 
of Exodus 4: 28 that minor offenses are expiated by 
blood, but the blood of a pure female is sufficient. In 
the Book of Numbers 19c and beginning with the 2v 
we have a very important statute established by the 
burning of a heifer, the ashes of which are kept for a 
special memorial to the end of the law. But it will 
be seen that this heifer must be without spot or blem- 
ish nor having been yoked. Now let us present a 
brief summary and examine it by our irypothesis. In 
all the scriptures to which I have alluded the sacri- 
fice, whether of cattle, sheep or goats, were to be 
young or of the first year and without blemish. Mai. 
1:14 tells us that God will not be deceived in an of- 
fering, it must be without blemish or his curse will be 
upon him that offers. In Matthew 19:12 the Savior 
teaches us a lesson we cannot afford to loose, while it 
comes so clearly within the range of our hypothesis. 
This scripture reads: "For there are some eunuchs 
which were so born from their mother's womb and 
there are some eunuchs which were made eunuchs of 
men." We understand the eunuch to be a male 
without testicles, and so born as it often occurs, in a 
horse, we call him a rigland, or having testicles he is 
sterile or a male hermaphrodite. Born without the 
testicles showing it was in some way put upon an 
equality with castration. Cnstration then was a 
blemish classed with sterility. Barrenness was a 
blemish classed as a shame, cursed was the man with 
his seed in his belly. No man could approach the 
altar with broken stones. Lev. 21:20. Nor have 
any part in the congregation of Israel. Deut. 21:1. 
Now you may ask, what will you do with your little 



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summary? Our hypothesis brings this thought vividly 
before us. If the blemishes here named disqualified 
the animal for sacrifice, and the sacrifice had to be 
made, and made of the firstling of the flock, and in 
each case of a pure sacrifice it was to be of the first 
year, we see at once it was a moral impossibility for 
them to ascertain correctly at that age their proceative 
purity unless they knew the law and the time con- 
ception took place that the first-born might be pure, 
and the necessity is the more apparent for them to 
know the exact time for an imperfect male or female, 
since the divine pronunciamento was against any im- 
perfection. Some one may say the male genital or- 
ganism would exhibit the sex, condition very young, 
so the priest would take no risk in making an imper- 
fect offering. Admitting this to be true, we are met 
by an imperative law that all that openeth the matrix, 
meaning evidently the first fruit of the womb, and 
this of every beast they had and this should without 
variation or mistake be given to God, and a male and 
pure, stands of itself a strong argument that they of 
divinely made necessity well understood the sexing 
process. 

Mai. 1:14 adds a valuable thought along this line 
and bears directly upon our subject of sacrifice and 
teaches us that sure sexing was held as a dying tra- 
dition, and yet he reminds Israel that God would 
curse a deceiver at the sacrificial alter, in his attempt 
to offer a corrupt thing. I would not risk repeating 
Malachi's warning to Israel were it not so far down 
the ages through which, by the dim signals we have 
cited, had been kept and practiced one of the world's 
finest arts. Another reason for repeating this refer- 
ence arises from the superstitious expression of a class 
already mentioned, who regard any pioneer thought 
as an invasion of God's private dominion. To that 
class these scriptures present the fact that not only 



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did God not forbid or in any way obstruct a clear 
knowledge of sex-breeding, but severe penalties are 
pronounced against them when attempting to make 
their sacrifices without it. It is now very plain to us 
by our perfectly harmonious hypothetical formula 
that we have before us a resurrection which will in 
no wise antagonize any expressed will of the Creator 
or force back upon the world an unused, unwelcome, 
or dangerous practice. Without dwelling longer at 
this point than to get a fair understanding of our sub- 
ject as viewed from the sacrificial altar I will present 
Jacob among the field animals of his father-in-law, 
and see him as he applies a "knowledge" which he 
appropriates to his personal, pecuniary or commercial 
advantage. The casual observer of this little finan- 
cial scheme of Jacob is liable to lose sight of the cun- 
ning precision with which he performed it. Jacob 
well knew by the established custom of his people, 
and the near relation of Laban to his family that he 
would have in every way a very decided advantage 
of his uncle when he had fully made known to him 
the object of his visit. Nor can we put any financial 
scheming beyond him when we so plainly see how he 
took advantage of his old and blind father and of his 
own brother when he so adroitly stole his brother's 
blessing. From a close reading of the little scriptures 
given us we infer that Jacob left his father's house 
with nothing more than was necessary for his journey 
and visit to his uncle. In a word he was a poor 
young man and his uncle had what we would now 
call a fair stock rancho. Rachal, Laban's daughter, 
was the only promised compensation to Jacob for his 
next seven years' work, at the end of which time he 
would have the girl and seven years' experience with 
his now father-in-law's flock. At his option he could 
then take his wife back to his own family or remain a 
hireling with L,aban. We here discover Laban in a 



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little scheme ending in the sale of both his daughters 
which at this time appeared to be the sole reward for 
the diligent and prosperous work of Jacob on the 
farm. Rachal was the debt Laban owed to Jacob but 
deceivingly paid it with Leah. Jacob murmured but 
was soon reconciled in the promise of Rachal at the 
end of Leah's week and seven years more work on the 
ranch. This proposition Jacob willingly accepted. 
But why did he so willingly do so? Let me ask, as 
appears in the sequel, had not Laban's flocks and 
herds increased from the beginning under Jacob's 
care? Did not Jacob know just why so many colors 
had appeared among them and justw hat had produced 
them. Does not the cunning of the man, beginning 
with Esau and his pottage, tell us that he would not 
with two wifes on his hands, his poverty, and the 
promise of God to make of him a great nation, and 
possibly begin it with these two women, have so 
frankly told Laban what his wages should be and how 
determined, without knowing to a certainty just how 
to conduct the propagation, and how to speck, streak 
and ring them up that he would get all the best of his 
father-in-law's flocks? In other words how he could 
rob him and do it in a business-like way, which is to 
this day a well known commercial characteristic of 
his descendants, and not know the exact methods and 
law by which the marks were produced. It was evi- 
dent from the very nature of his proposition that he 
was not just at that time beginning a series of experi- 
ments not knowing whether they would terminate in 
success or failure. But to the contrary we are the 
more confirmed in our belief of Jacob's "sexual" 
knowledge of field life when we see him of his own 
will divide Laban's flock, the varigated from the solid 
colors and taking none of either as his beginning, but 
only the chance of producing for himself in the future 
his part, from the effect of his secret methods upon 



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that part of I^aban's flocks that was free from rings, 
streaks or spots. We are further assured, that Jacob 
knew well the secret power of his methods when he 
mixed and crossed his rods in the water troughs. We 
know as a common experiment that a little agitation 
of the surface of clear water so breaks the refraction 
of light that a straight rod under the surface of the 
water can be made to take on the form of spots, curves, 
steaks and rings, and at the same time appear to be 
moving in the water, which produces an effect upon 
the female when drinking at certain periods. This 
Jacob knew and knew just when that period was. 
He knew so well his work that he produced his de- 
sired effect upon the best of the herd nor could he af- 
ford to miss a single chance as there was just one time 
for him to put in sure work and. that was in concep- 
tion. This scripture presents us with a thought that 
may embody a very important fact. A question re- 
mains yet unanswered among the most learned veter- 
inarians as to the exact time conception takes place, 
whether at the moment of coition, the end of the heat 
or at the maturity of the ovum. We feel sure Jacob 
knew just when his water vision would have the 
greatest effect and he evidently presented it at the 
right time. Judging from our experience with the 
custom of farm stock, copulation does not take place, 
except in very rare instances, at feed or watering 
time. Jacob could not afford to trust to a caprice of 
chance when the entire execution of his design de- 
pended upon his water trough scheme. As an his- 
toric fact this scheme of Jacob with Laban's flocks 
and herds, their increase coming exactly to his suit- 
ing, rapidly and surely absorbing all the good, his 
rapid increase in wealth as an undisputed sequence, 
stands up to-day without a parallel. Reference is 
often made to this scripture event as a pretty nice 
little game for a young Israelite, without realizing in 



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the least its source, magnitude and importance. Not 
in the history of our race, except in the life and per- 
son of Jesus Christ, do we find such knowledge of the 
laws governing animal reproduction. If there be any 
truth in this account at all, and we are not prepared 
to dispute it at this time, we have the fact that Jacob's 
birth and life was far out of the ordinary. Rebecka, 
his mother, was barren. Isaac, his father, knew of 
her barrenness and that it was of a subtle nature. He 
appealed to the IyOrd for the healing of his wife. Her 
first conception was twins. One had the skin of a 
beast, but the brain of a man of clear intellect. The 
other, Jacob, indicated his cunning from his mother's 
womb. Esau came first from the womb, which by 
custom gave him a birthright, which meant a prior 
right to paternal favors and blessings, the right of the 
first born. Jacob embraced an opportune moment to 
purchase his brother's birthright, which he did, and 
by a little cunning conspiracy aided by his mother, 
executed the liberties of his birthright purchase in the 
little kid skin and venison game, by which was in- 
augurated the most remarkable system of national 
ethics the world has ever known. Whatever casuis- 
try would appear, of which might be predicated Ja- 
cob's harmonious relation to his God, we just as cer- 
tainly entangle both Jacob aud his God in a very cun- 
ning deception, when Jacob was approached by the 
murmur of Laban's sons, or he overheard them com- 
plaining that Jacob hath taken away all that their 
father had and from it had gathered all his glory. 
Some perplexing thought is suggested to us in the 
reading of this 31st chapter of Gen., after reading the 
last twelve verses of the 30th, or preceding chapter. 
These Syrians, Iyaban and his sons, seemed not to un- 
derstand Jacob's unparalleled success, and yet, as 
clearly appears in their willingness to covenant with 
Jacob when they had overtaken him as he was so 



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stealthily leaving them, that his success during his 
six years' service for himself was no ordinary streak 
of luck, and Jacob knew they were now completely 
bewildered as he related to them how God protected 
him against their deceptions and change of wages, 
which meant that Laban thought to cut off Jacob's 
chances by saying just the spotted should be Jacob's, 
and when this was true then all the good ones were 
spotted, and God made it so specially to protect Jacob 
and this was true of all the marks. Now why did 
Jacob persuade these Syrians that God was maneuver- 
ing this phenomenal success and that an angel told 
him in a dream that the sires of the flocks and herds, 
as shown him in copulation, were ringstreaked, speck- 
led and grizzled and that he could not change the run 
that everything had as it all went his way? Why did 
Jacob gather up his all and so secretly move out, con- 
trary to the custom of family partings? And why 
much else just along here, all of which is so contrary 
to what appears, while he is fixing and carrying out 
the terms of his service contract? And why did he 
conceal and never mention or intimate his water- 
trough scheme? L,et us take a glance at the situation 
and see if we can discover anything in favor of our 
hypothesis. We will assume that Jacob knew the 
secret of proper breeding for sex. By this assumption 
he secretly practiced, with other successful coadju- 
tants, this law or method while caring for Iyaban's 
stock during his fourteen years' service for him. That 
he did not in any way disclose his secret nor any part 
of it to any one during these long years. That his 
purpose as shown in all his false ascriptions to God 
and his angel was to conceal from these Syrians a 
system, the secret of proper breeding for sex, which 
belonged to a lineage of which he, Jacob, was a di- 
vinely favored member. Saying nothing of Jacob's 
sincerity, that this account does not say, we are left 



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to face the plain fact that Jacob clothes his I^abanic 
debut in a sublime deception having no equal; and 
no apology save in commercial Israel. If Jacob was 
not a most consummate scoundrel, he was certainly 
true to his secret, himself and his people. As already 
indicated our inference is clear that Jacob knew just 
when conception took place. Recurring upon this 
thought, it was not necessary for Jacob to know the 
anatomy of the procreative organs, their cell life, em- 
briotic and fcetal life and development, in order to 
know just how to obtain any desired effect. But that 
he apppears to settle the question that conception does 
not nececsarily take place at the moment of coition, 
but as appears couched in our hypothesis the maturity 
of the ovum determines conception, and not the heat 
pleasure or contact in copulation, is evident from his 
confinement of his materials to one place, and that 
where copulations were quite infrequent. If it was 
true that conception determined the time to place a 
mark upon the foetus or embryo, and it was at the 
moment of copulation, then Jacob would as surely 
have put his rods and poles at the breeding places and 
not confined them to the watering troughs. So were 
the thoughts of Mr. Slaughter, while he so studiously 
conducted his observations and experiments, the facts 
of which we now have notwithstanding many so-called 
scientific assertions to the contrary. For the present 
we will pass from these scripture references back to 
the sphere of our hypothesis. A question of much 
interest to all stock breeders, the keeper of the stallion 
as well as the owner of the mare, presented itself to Mr. 
Slaughter in repeated failures to impregnate, where 
there was no real cause apparently for such failure. 
Mr, Slaughter discovered that in the great majority of 
such cases the heat period ran its full nine days. If 
the mare was bred at the beginning of oestrum, or 
heat, and the period lasted its full time, it was possi- 



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ble for the animal to be impregnated by first service 
and returning to the horse the seventh or ninth day, 
still being in heat, is served again to be followed by 
another service on the next seventh or ninth day. 
Was it not possible that something wrong could be 
done by too frequent service or by serving the second 
time in the same heat. Mr. Slaughter reasoned that 
if conception took place at the maturity of the ovum, 
and the ovum matured as the heat subsided, it would 
of necessity occur that the second service coming in 
in the same heat, came just at the time of uteral at- 
tachment, and the second service served only to des- 
troy the then possibly well defined embryo, leaving 
the mare unimpregnated and perhaps so to run 
through the season. In this way Mr. Slaughter de- 
termined that many failures, so thought, occurred and 
with experienced stock-breeders. His next question 
was, how could this be obviated and not loose too 
much time in the breeding season. He reasoned that 
if each oestrum or heat matured an egg, and the per- 
iods were as a general thing but nine days apart, if 
the breeder would, after the first service, wait eighteen 
days before teasing again, his mare would, if impreg- 
nated at first service, go entirely out of heat, and not, 
all else favorable, be in heat again through the sea- 
Son. If to the contrary the mare should fail to be im- 
pregnated at first service, by the eighteenth day you 
can be sure, except in cases where regular monthly 
heats run to foaling, that the mare is not impregnated. 
If the mare should be in heat on the eighteenth day 
and the horse serve her, then wait eighteen days 
again before teasing. But if the mare refuse on the 
eighteenth day, wait ten days before teasing again. 
Should the mare be in heat on the twenty-eighth day 
and the horse serve her, wait again eighteen days, 
and so on through the season. The result of these 
observations was to Mr. Slaughter and all others who 



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followed his instructions, very satisfactory. I know 
several good stock-breeders who follow this method 
with all their patrons, and will breed no other way, 
claiming their horses and jacks get more mares in 
foal, i. e., their books show a higher percent, of 
mares served to be in foal than under the old system, 
which is by far the most satisfactory to both parties. 
I have already treated of barrenness in the female and 
sterility in the male, arising from their various causes 
sufficiently, not to appear in this place. 1 make this 
last mention from the fact that some mares not really 
barren are uncertain breeders, which uncertainty may 
in the main be due to the custom of breeding every 
seventh or ninth day, or twice in the same heat. 
There is another very common obstruction to impreg- 
nation, and which when discovered is in most cases 
easily overcome. I speak of the contraction or spas- 
modic stricture of the neck of the womb, fatty block- 
ading of the ovaduct, etc. , which is all described and 
treated by veterinarians generally, but would be en- 
tirely out of place in this little work . I gave notice 
that some strong certificates would appear in the 
proper place in . this volume, from men who had 
thoroughly tested Mr. Slaughter's method of stock- 
breeding, or proper breeding for sex, and perhaps it 
is proper to introduce them here. The first is from 
Mr. George Coffrnan, Anna, Collin County, Texas, 
who has for many years been known as a breeder of 
fine blooded and imported stock, and who would not 
permit his name to apeear in this work as an indorser 
were the facts not as are here given. This certificate 
was given to the editor of this work by Mr. Coffman 
at his home on the 24th day of May, 1898, and reads: 

I hereby certify that I am at present a breeder of 
fine blooded horses and jacks and have been for many 
years, handling imported stock, and have used the 



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Slaughter method of breeding for sex, on my farm 
and given its benefit to a large number of my stock 
patrons, a few names of whom I give below. I have 
used this method continuously for the last twelve 
years, and in not a single instance where my instruc- 
tions have been followed has it failed. 

Geo. Coffman, Anna, Texas. 

Hamp Ratten, Melissa, Texas. 

Ned Mulligan, " " 

I. N. Stevens, " 

R. Powell, McKinney, Texas 

We next give a sworn statement of Mr. G. W. 
Kvans, Bmmett, Chickasaw Nation, bearing notaries 
seal under date of June 18, 1898, and it reads: 

To Whom it May Concern: — This is to certify 
that I have followed the instructions given me by Mr. 
R. M. Slaughter in his secret of proper time and 
methods of breeding stock and in every case the re- 
sult has been in perfect accordance with his instruc- 
tions. [Signed] G. W. Evans. 
Sworn to before J. T. Gardner, notary public, same 

date. 

Another satisfactory test by D. W. Norman, 
Troup, Texas, which we give below: 

Troup, Texas, June 30. '98. 

To Whom it May Concern:— This is to certify 
that I have followed the instructions given me by Mr. 
R. M. Slaughter in his secret method of stock-breed- 
ing for sex, and in every case the result has been in 
perfect accordance therewith. 

[Signed] D. W. Norman. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Troup, Texas, 
this 30th day of June, 1898. 

[Signed] T. B. Collier, 
In and for Smith County, Texas. 



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Below is Mr. Slaughter's own affidavit, and reads: 
Be it known that I, R. M. Slaughter,, have for 
the last thiity-eight years, been experimenting and in 
every possible way, testing my method of breeding 
for sex, or how to obtain a male or female offspring 
as we may desire. I am now in full possession of the 
method by which this can be done with perfect suc- 
cess, a true description of which is fully set forth in a 
litle work entitled "Key to Secret of Breeding for 
Sex," written by J, B. Iyamkin, which work has been 
under my supervision from beginning to end, and the 
statements therein relating to time and method of 
breeding are true and correct. 

[Signed] R. M. Slaughter. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of 

July, 1898. 

[Signed] R. F. French, 
Notary Public of Nida, I. T. 

We could with some trouble and a little delay in 
our work, add more names to our list of indorsers, but 
while each certificate or statement would of itself be a 
strength to our work, they would be but a repetition 
of what we have given, and I am sure that by the 
known integrity of the men whose names appear 
herein, this volume will go to the stock-breeding 
world as a production and a guide without a parallel 
or rival in any age, or among any people save with 
that of empirical antiquity. We have presented no 
claim of science, as in any way as yet entitled to the 
honors couched within the iron grasp of known and 
proven facts. These we offer with all the stubborn- 
ness and independence of their peculiar nature. I 
have said that of all I have offered as theory, specula- 
tion or argument, something of which will remain 
perhaps after the hardest strokes have been made to 
crush it, there is nothing there upon which I would 



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depend for support in presenting to the scientific 
world a work like this. If these theories had been 
my dependence for proof, however well rny hypothesis 
might have been formulated, I could not have lifted 
my hand and bid defiance to the scientific world, but, 
with that assurance belonging only to the peculiar 
nature of stubborn facts, I can say with becoming 
modesty that we have nothing to fear from any source 
while our structure stands on a granite base. To 
briefly recapitulate will be to close this little volume. 
As a universal law time determines and controls all 
physical organization and life. There is a time to all 
things. The earth, moon and sun give us time. The 
sun, moon and stars constitute the power that forms 
and governs sex. From one day after full moon to 
one day before the new, determines the male sex. 
From one day after the new and to within one day of 
the full moon, determines the female sex. The 
moon's meridian, either new or old, or the exact time 
of change, determines the complete hermaphrodite. 
The last waxing minutes of the new give the female 
hermaphrodite, and the first waning minutes give us 
the male hermaphrodite. Within a lunar month is 
embraced the law that gives the breeder the perfect 
male or well sexed male, the imperfect or sterile male, 
the perfect or well sexed female, the imperfect or 
barren female, the male, female and complete her- 
maphrodite. With this brief review of our diagram 
we deliver to the breeder the only sure method of 
breeding for sex the world has ever known. We can 
with frankness and candor say if he will follow the 
instruction here given, he has within his grasp the 
power to have his barnyard stocked with either male 
or female just as he may desire. As to the value 
this little work will prove to be to the stock-breeding 
world it would be impossible to estimate. The breed- 
ing of cattle as well as horses is embraced within our 



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diagram, but requires closer watching as the heat 
ebbs and flows more rapidly. We will say this, how- 
ever: If a bull calf is desired breed your cow on or 
after full moon and as quick as you discover your cow 
is in heat. If a heifer calf, then breed on new moon 
as per diagram, and lose no time as it is known the 
cow goes out of heat when she lies down and chews 
her cud. We have now completed this litlle volume. 
In delivering it to the breeding public, we do so with 
a conscience void of offense, feeling that whatever the 
price paid for it may be, its value cannot be estimated 
by it, nor is there a page between its lids that does 
not in some way teach us of the majestic grandeur of 
our God, and the splendid dignity of creation, and 
that of our own being. 

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